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fa13e1b0c52738492310b6b421d8e38cb04da5b1 build: Add option --enable-danger-fuzz-link-all (MarcoFalke) 44444ba759480237172d83f42374c5c29c76eda0 fuzz: Link all targets once (MarcoFalke) Pull request description: Currently the linker is invoked more than 150 times when compiling with `--enable-fuzz`. This is problematic for several reasons: * It wastes disk space north of 20 GB, as all libraries and sanitizers are linked more than 150 times * It wastes CPU time, as the link step can practically not be cached (similar to ccache for object files) * It makes it a blocker to compile the fuzz tests by default for non-fuzz builds #19388, for the aforementioned reasons * The build file is several thousand lines of code, without doing anything meaningful except listing each fuzz target in a highly verbose manner * It makes writing new fuzz tests unnecessarily hard, as build system knowledge is required; Compare that to boost unit tests, which can be added by simply editing an existing cpp file * It encourages fuzz tests that re-use the `buffer` or assume the `buffer` to be concatenations of seeds, which increases complexity of seeds and complexity for the fuzz engine to explore; Thus reducing the effectiveness of the affected fuzz targets Fixes #20088 ACKs for top commit: practicalswift: Tested ACK fa13e1b0c52738492310b6b421d8e38cb04da5b1 sipa: ACK fa13e1b0c52738492310b6b421d8e38cb04da5b1. Reviewed the code changes, and tested the 3 different test_runner.py modes (run once, merge, generate). I also tested building with the new --enable-danger-fuzz-link-all Tree-SHA512: 962ab33269ebd51810924c51266ecc62edd6ddf2fcd9a8c359ed906766f58c3f73c223f8d3cc49f2c60f0053f65e8bdd86ce9c19e673f8c2b3cd676e913f2642
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin Core is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency.
For more information, as well as an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/, or read the original whitepaper.
License
Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Development Process
The master branch is regularly built (see doc/build-*.md for instructions) and tested, but it is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly from release branches to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
The https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui repository is used exclusively for the development of the GUI. Its master branch is identical in all monotree repositories. Release branches and tags do not exist, so please do not fork that repository unless it is for development reasons.
The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md and useful hints for developers can be found in doc/developer-notes.md.
Testing
Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.
Automated Testing
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run
(assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check. Further details on running
and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
There are also regression and integration tests, written
in Python, that are run automatically on the build server.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py
The Travis CI system makes sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and that unit/sanity tests are run automatically.
Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.
Translations
Changes to translations as well as new translations can be submitted to Bitcoin Core's Transifex page.
Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the translation process for details on how this works.
Important: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.
Translators should also subscribe to the mailing list.