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| author | mruddy <mruddy@users.noreply.github.com> | 2016-04-08 20:15:41 -0400 |
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| committer | mruddy <mruddy@users.noreply.github.com> | 2016-04-09 08:59:46 -0400 |
| commit | fe53a2af6f8dccd53116ae35f28ec3860cc72f19 (patch) | |
| tree | 10e7c00b639e141e9cfd91328c2e0b091f718ff5 /doc | |
| parent | 065c6b443f3e9864b1b4231208b49e3cef99cef3 (diff) | |
doc: add arch linux setup and build example
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/build-unix.md | 20 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/build-unix.md b/doc/build-unix.md index c1e92d8d15..dc754fc733 100644 --- a/doc/build-unix.md +++ b/doc/build-unix.md @@ -250,6 +250,24 @@ A list of additional configure flags can be displayed with: ./configure --help +Setup and Build Example: Arch Linux +----------------------------------- +This example lists the steps necessary to setup and build a command line only, non-wallet distribution of the latest changes on Arch Linux: + + pacman -S git base-devel boost libevent python + git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git + cd bitcoin/ + ./autogen.sh + ./configure --disable-wallet --without-gui --without-miniupnpc + make check + +Note: +Enabling wallet support requires either compiling against a Berkeley DB newer than 4.8 (package `db`) using `--with-incompatible-bdb`, +or building and depending on a local version of Berkeley DB 4.8. The readily available Arch Linux packages are currently built using +`--with-incompatible-bdb` according to the [PKGBUILD](https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/bitcoin/trunk/PKGBUILD). +As mentioned above, when maintaining portability of the wallet between the standard Bitcoin Core distributions and independently built +node software is desired, Berkeley DB 4.8 must be used. + ARM Cross-compilation ------------------- @@ -270,4 +288,4 @@ To build executables for ARM: make -For further documentation on the depends system see [README.md](../depends/README.md) in the depends directory.
\ No newline at end of file +For further documentation on the depends system see [README.md](../depends/README.md) in the depends directory. |