tl;dr: This solves boost visibility problems for default/release build configs
on non-Linux platforms.
When Bitcoin builds against boost's header-only classes, it ends up with
objects containing symbols that the upstream boost libs also have. Since
Bitcoin builds by default with hidden symbol visibility, it can end up trying
to link against a copy of the same symbols with default visibility.
This is not a problem on Linux because 3rd party static libs are un-exported
by default (--exclude-libs,ALL), but that is not available for MinGW and OSX.
Those platforms (and maybe others?) end up confused about which version to use.
The OSX linker spews hundreds of: "ld: warning: direct access in <foo> to
global weak symbol guard variable for <bar> means the weak symbol cannot be
overridden at runtime. This was likely caused by different translation units
being compiled with different visibility settings."
MinGW's linker complains similarly.
Since the default symbol visibility for Bitcoin is hidden and releases are
built that way as well, build Boost with hidden visibility. Linux builds Boost
this way also, but only for the sake of continuity.
This means that the linker confusion logic is reversed, so the problem will
will now be encountered if Bitcoin is built with --disable-reduce-exports, but
that's better than the current situation.
Start the RPC server before doing all the (expensive) startup
initialisations like loading the block index. Until the node is ready,
return all calls immediately with a new error signalling "in warmup"
with an appropriate status message (similar to the init message).
This is useful for RPC clients to know that the server is there (e. g.,
they don't have to start it) but not yet available. It is used in
Namecoin and Huntercoin already for some time, and there exists a UI
hooked onto the RPC interface that actively uses this to its advantage.
1bea2bb Rename ProcessBlock to ProcessNewBlock to indicate change of behaviour, and document it (Luke Dashjr)
d29a291 Rename RPC_TRANSACTION_* errors to RPC_VERIFY_* and use RPC_VERIFY_ERROR for submitblock (Luke Dashjr)
f877aaa Bugfix: submitblock: Use a temporary CValidationState to determine accurately the outcome of ProcessBlock, now that it no longer does the full block validity check (Luke Dashjr)
24e8896 Add CValidationInterface::BlockChecked notification (Luke Dashjr)
2191eac add tests to travis (Cory Fields)
7667850 tests: replace the old (unused since Travis) tests with new rpc test scripts (Cory Fields)
fa7f8cd tests: remove old pull-tester scripts (Cory Fields)
5122ea7 tests: fix forknotify.py on windows (Cory Fields)
7a41614 tests: allow rpc-tests to get filenames for bitcoind and bitcoin-cli from the environment (Cory Fields)
f635269 tests: enable alertnotify test for Windows (Cory Fields)
484e350 Update comments in client version to be doxygen compatible (Michael Ford)
6395ba3 Update comments in version to be doxygen compatible (Michael Ford)
02fe12d Update generate-seeds.py to produce doxygen compatible comments (Michael Ford)
f2e03ff Update comments in chainparams to be doxygen compatible (Michael Ford)
2fdc335 Update comments in chain to be doxygen compatible (Michael Ford)
Cory Fields