This contains a few hacks very specific to Qt's buildsystem. These can be
reverted once we split the build between native and target builds.
Qt's build contains a circular dependency when not using a system zlib.
By far the easiest fix is to switch to a system zlib, rather than Qt's own.
However, that confuses Qt's cross build which assumes that when using a system
zlib, it should also find a system (native) zlib for native tools. The build
breaks if that zlib is not present.
To solve this:
1. Always use a system zlib rather than the one provided by qt
2. Set force_bootstrap, which instructs the build tools to be built as though
we're cross-compiling (build != target)
3. For build tools, use qt's internal zlib so that a native zlib is not
required.
Step 3 means that if any zlib headers are found by the native build, it will
confuse Qt's internal zlib build. So we also need to make sure that the target
headers/libs aren't found. To do so, specify that our
cflags/cxxflags/cppflags/ldflags only apply for non-host builds.
# Conflicts:
# depends/patches/qt/mac-qmake.conf
qt5.7 changed the location of some of its symbols, creating a circular
dependency in Qt5Core. Rather than trying to fix that up, build our own zlib
rather than having it built for us.
Their buildsystem insists on using the installed ltranslate, but gets confused
about how to find it. Since we manually control the build order, just drop the
dependency.
since there is i/o that can happen when retrieving extended input
and output information, limiting the duration of the lock in getrawtransaction
can help improve concurrency
There was a previous assumption that blockindex would be quite small. With addressindex
and spentindex enabled the blockindex is much larger and the amount of cache allocated for
it should also increase. Furthermore, enabling compression should decrease the amount of
disk space required and less data to write/read. The default leveldb max_open_files is set to
1000, for the blockindex the default is set to 1000 with compression. The 64 value that is
current is kept for the utxo database and does not enable compression. Two additional options
are added here to be able to configure the values for leveldb and the block index:
- `-dbmaxopenfiles` A number of files for leveldb to keep open
- `-dbcompression` Boolean 0 or 1 to enable snappy leveldb compression
