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Expand Up @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Licenses of statically linked libraries:
- Boost 1.37
- miniupnpc 1.6

Dependency Build Instructions: Ubuntu & Debian
Dependency Build Instructions: Ubuntu, Debian & Gentoo
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Build requirements:

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Ubuntu precise has packages for libdb5.1-dev and libdb5.1++-dev,
but using these will break binary wallet compatibility, and is not recommended.

for Gentoo:

emerge datacoin-hp

for other Ubuntu & Debian:

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sudo apt-get install libminiupnpc-dev (see USE_UPNP compile flag)


Dependency Build Instructions: Gentoo
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Note: If you just want to install bitcoind on Gentoo, you can add the Bitcoin overlay and use your package manager:

layman -a bitcoin && emerge bitcoind
emerge -av1 --noreplace boost glib openssl sys-libs/db:4.8

Take the following steps to build (no UPnP support):

cd ${BITCOIN_DIR}/src
make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP= USE_IPV6=1 BDB_INCLUDE_PATH='/usr/include/db4.8'
strip bitcoind


Notes
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The release is built with GCC and then "strip bitcoind" to strip the debug
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To build with PIE, use:

make -f makefile.unix ... -e PIE=1

Note: To build with PIE in Gentoo Linux enable the 'hardened' USE flag. see man portage for info.


To test that you have built PIE executable, install scanelf, part of paxutils, and use:

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