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diff --git a/doc/developer-notes.md b/doc/developer-notes.md index 2662eea8fc..62c764bb31 100644 --- a/doc/developer-notes.md +++ b/doc/developer-notes.md @@ -952,8 +952,7 @@ A few guidelines for introducing and reviewing new RPC interfaces: from there. - A RPC method must either be a wallet method or a non-wallet method. Do not - introduce new methods such as `signrawtransaction` that differ in behavior - based on presence of a wallet. + introduce new methods that differ in behavior based on presence of a wallet. - *Rationale*: as well as complicating the implementation and interfering with the introduction of multi-wallet, wallet and non-wallet code should be diff --git a/doc/productivity.md b/doc/productivity.md index e0df558944..a93228ebdb 100644 --- a/doc/productivity.md +++ b/doc/productivity.md @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Table of Contents * [Cache compilations with `ccache`](#cache-compilations-with-ccache) * [Disable features with `./configure`](#disable-features-with-configure) * [Make use of your threads with `make -j`](#make-use-of-your-threads-with-make--j) + * [Only build what you need](#only-build-what-you-need) * [Multiple working directories with `git worktrees`](#multiple-working-directories-with-git-worktrees) * [Writing code](#writing-code) * [Format C/C++/Protobuf diffs with `clang-format-diff.py`](#format-ccprotobuf-diffs-with-clang-format-diffpy) @@ -32,6 +33,17 @@ Install `ccache` through your distribution's package manager, and run `./configu To use ccache for all your C/C++ projects, follow the symlinks method [here](https://ccache.samba.org/manual/latest.html#_run_modes) to set it up. +To get the most out of ccache, put something like this in `~/.ccache/ccache.conf`: + +``` +max_size = 50.0G # or whatever cache size you prefer; default is 5G; 0 means unlimited +base_dir = /home/yourname # or wherever you keep your source files +``` + +Note: base_dir is required for ccache to share cached compiles of the same file across different repositories / paths; it will only do this for paths under base_dir. So this option is required for effective use of ccache with git worktrees (described below). + +You _must not_ set base_dir to "/", or anywhere that contains system headers (according to the ccache docs). + ### Disable features with `./configure` After running `./autogen.sh`, which generates the `./configure` file, use `./configure --help` to identify features that you can disable to save on compilation time. A few common flags: @@ -43,6 +55,8 @@ After running `./autogen.sh`, which generates the `./configure` file, use `./con --without-gui ``` +If you do need the wallet enabled, it is common for devs to add `--with-incompatible-bdb`. This uses your system bdb version for the wallet, so you don't have to find a copy of bdb 4.8. Wallets from such a build will be incompatible with any release binary (and vice versa), so use with caution on mainnet. + ### Make use of your threads with `make -j` If you have multiple threads on your machine, you can tell `make` to utilize all of them with: @@ -51,6 +65,20 @@ If you have multiple threads on your machine, you can tell `make` to utilize all make -j"$(($(nproc)+1))" ``` +### Only build what you need + +When rebuilding during development, note that running `make`, without giving a target, will do a lot of work you probably don't need. It will build the GUI (unless you've disabled it) and all the tests (which take much longer to build than the app does). + +Obviously, it is important to build and run the tests at appropriate times -- but when you just want a quick compile to check your work, consider picking one or a set of build targets relevant to what you're working on, e.g.: + +```sh +make src/bitcoind src/bitcoin-cli +make src/qt/bitcoin-qt +make -C src bitcoin_bench +``` + +(You can and should combine this with `-j`, as above, for a parallel build.) + ### Multiple working directories with `git worktrees` If you work with multiple branches or multiple copies of the repository, you should try `git worktrees`. diff --git a/doc/release-notes-15637.md b/doc/release-notes-15637.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..048d5e7218 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes-15637.md @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +RPC changes +----------- +In getmempoolancestors, getmempooldescendants, getmempoolentry and getrawmempool RPCs, to be consistent with the returned value and other RPCs such as getrawtransaction, vsize has been added and size is now deprecated. size will only be returned if bitcoind is started with `-deprecatedrpc=size`.
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