Many people need or want to build go-ethereum from the git repository,
mostly to stay up to date with recent changes. We cannot expect that
people without Go experience grok the Go workspace concept.
With the Makefile, building from github requires only
three steps (provided that a Go toolchain is installed):
- git clone https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
- ... install C libraries (libgmp, etc.) ...
- make
This commit also changes the block test loading so tests containing
invalid RLP blocks can be loaded and return an error only when they are
run.
(cherry picked from commit 898ba87984791249586b97c9ce340dd087b79d67)
If all peers have been tried during the block download process and some
hashes are unfetchable (available peers > 0 and fetching == 0) throw an
error so the process can be aborted.
* Downloader's peers keeps track of peer's previously requested hashes
so that we don't have to re-request
* Changed `AddBlock` to be fully synchronous
* Improved block propagation by sending blocks only to peers to which, as
far as we know, the peer does not know about.
* Made sub protocol its own manager
* SubProtocol now contains the p2p.Protocol which is used instead of
a function-returning-protocol thing.
The rules have changed as follows:
* When decoding into pointers, empty values no longer produce
a nil pointer. This can be overriden for struct fields using the
struct tag "nil".
* When decoding into structs, the input list must contain an element
for each field.
All integers (including size information in type tags) need to be
encoded using the smallest possible encoding. This commit expands the
stricter validation introduced for *big.Int in commit 59597d23a5ee268
to all integer types and size tags.
A single zero byte carries information and should not set the pointer
to nil. This is arguably a corner case. While here, fix the comment
to explain pointer reuse.
