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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2016-06-22 14:48:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2016-06-22 14:51:21 +0200 |
| commit | 9f1807af2422e3ac2d3702242b4a47c8df0be262 (patch) | |
| tree | 2261266d761c8747b65d9a418c2d1ebb1c90b388 /doc | |
| parent | e9d76a161d30ee3081acf93d70a9ae668a9d6ed1 (diff) | |
| parent | 06f40ef324ce0d4e43b89f7106e50965263aa2c7 (diff) | |
Merge #8233: Mention Linux ARM executables in release process and notes
06f40ef depends: Mention aarch64 as common cross-compile target (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
05f64c9 doc: Mention Linux ARM builds in release notes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
b7bf037 doc: Mention ARM executables in release process (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/release-notes.md | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/release-process.md | 11 |
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 6cc05989db..df3c265dcd 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -61,6 +61,26 @@ When cross-compiling for a target that doesn't have C++11 libraries, configure w For running the functional tests in `qa/rpc-tests`, Python3.4 or higher is now required. +Linux ARM builds +------------------ + +Due to popular request, Linux ARM builds have been added to the uploaded +executables. + +The following extra files can be found in the download directory or torrent: + +- `bitcoin-${VERSION}-arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.gz`: Linux binaries for the most + common 32-bit ARM architecture. +- `bitcoin-${VERSION}-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.gz`: Linux binaries for the most + common 64-bit ARM architecture. + +ARM builds are still experimental. If you have problems on a certain device or +Linux distribution combination please report them on the bug tracker, it may be +possible to resolve them. + +Note that Android is not considered ARM Linux in this context. The executables +are not expected to work out of the box on Android. + 0.13.0 Change log ================= diff --git a/doc/release-process.md b/doc/release-process.md index f5d0d836d1..35ee1edae1 100644 --- a/doc/release-process.md +++ b/doc/release-process.md @@ -204,8 +204,10 @@ sha256sum * > SHA256SUMS The list of files should be: ``` -bitcoin-${VERSION}-linux32.tar.gz -bitcoin-${VERSION}-linux64.tar.gz +bitcoin-${VERSION}-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.gz +bitcoin-${VERSION}-arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.gz +bitcoin-${VERSION}-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz +bitcoin-${VERSION}-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz bitcoin-${VERSION}-osx64.tar.gz bitcoin-${VERSION}-osx.dmg bitcoin-${VERSION}.tar.gz @@ -214,6 +216,11 @@ bitcoin-${VERSION}-win32.zip bitcoin-${VERSION}-win64-setup.exe bitcoin-${VERSION}-win64.zip ``` +The `*-debug*` files generated by the gitian build contain debug symbols +for troubleshooting by developers. It is assumed that anyone that is interested +in debugging can run gitian to generate the files for themselves. To avoid +end-user confusion about which file to pick, as well as save storage +space *do not upload these to the bitcoin.org server, nor put them in the torrent*. - GPG-sign it, delete the unsigned file: ``` |