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FreeBSD: Document Python 3 requirement for 'gmake check'
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murrayn committed Oct 31, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ You will need the following dependencies, which can be installed as root via pkg
pkg install autoconf automake boost-libs git gmake libevent libtool openssl pkgconf
```

In order to run the test suite (recommended), you will need to have Python 3 installed:

```
pkg install python3
```

For the wallet (optional):
```
./contrib/install_db4.sh `pwd`
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./configure # to build with wallet OR
./configure --disable-wallet # to build without wallet
```

followed by either:

```
gmake
```

to build without testing, or

```
gmake check
```

to also run the test suite (recommended, if Python 3 is installed).

*Note on debugging*: The version of `gdb` installed by default is [ancient and considered harmful](https://wiki.freebsd.org/GdbRetirement).
It is not suitable for debugging a multi-threaded C++ program, not even for getting backtraces. Please install the package `gdb` and
use the versioned gdb command (e.g. `gdb7111`).
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