Docs: Improvements to UNIX documentation #12306

pull axvr wants to merge 2 commits into bitcoin:master from axvr:fix-docs changing 2 files +16 −7
  1. axvr commented at 10:34 PM on January 30, 2018: contributor
    • Added references to the newly created doc/build-netbsd.md (#12294) instructions in the doc/README.md and the doc/build-unix.md files.
    • Organise doc/build-unix.md dependency build instructions by Linux distribution. This will help discoverability of dependency build instructions for specific distros. Future instructions will also be able to be added easier.

    I am not quite sure about the FreeBSD instructions being in the doc/build-unix.md, while both the OpenBSD and NetBSD instructions are contained within separate files (doc/build-openbsd.md and doc/build-netbsd.md respectively).

    Feedback is greatly appreciated. 😄

  2. Add NetBSD build instruction links 4c855174e1
  3. Organise Linux build instructions to be categorised by distro ee5e8968b3
  4. fanquake added the label Docs on Jan 30, 2018
  5. MarcoFalke commented at 11:26 PM on January 30, 2018: member

    utACK ee5e8968b3d86b096e8565f8ed1acf71f0528885

  6. randolf approved
  7. laanwj commented at 9:20 AM on January 31, 2018: member

    I am not quite sure about the FreeBSD instructions being in the doc/build-unix.md

    The original reason for that is that the OpenBSD instructions were very long so they merited a separate file, and the FreeBSD instructions were short and simple, so they could be included in -unix. Over time they pretty much converged. NetBSD was added recently by someone else who was unaware of the history there.

    utACK https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/ee5e8968b3d86b096e8565f8ed1acf71f0528885 in any case.

  8. axvr commented at 9:35 AM on January 31, 2018: contributor

    @laanwj that makes sense, thanks for clearing that confusion up.

  9. laanwj merged this on Jan 31, 2018
  10. laanwj closed this on Jan 31, 2018
  11. laanwj referenced this in commit 216f9a42e6 on Jan 31, 2018
  12. PastaPastaPasta referenced this in commit 8878ae64e3 on Jun 26, 2021
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