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improve building from source (#7239)

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Lots of people are having trouble building from source and keep up to date. The main reason seems to be that cargo/rustup is hard to work with. The 'abort' panic strategy error is very frustrating and seems to be solved 100% of time with a clean.
 Adding those lines:
 When compiling a crate if you receive this error:
```
error: the crate is compiled with the panic strategy `abort` which is incompatible with this crate's strategy of `unwind`
```
Cleaning the repository will most likely solve the issue, try:
```
cargo clean
```
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Jerome de Tychey 2017-12-08 10:31:21 +01:00 committed by Afri Schoedon
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@ -94,12 +94,19 @@ $ cargo build --release
``` ```
This will produce an executable in the `./target/release` subdirectory. This will produce an executable in the `./target/release` subdirectory.
Note: if cargo fails to parse manifest try: Note1: if cargo fails to parse manifest try:
```bash ```bash
$ ~/.cargo/bin/cargo build --release $ ~/.cargo/bin/cargo build --release
``` ```
Note2: When compiling a crate if you receive this error:
```
error: the crate is compiled with the panic strategy `abort` which is incompatible with this crate's strategy of `unwind`
```
Cleaning the repository will most likely solve the issue, try:
```
cargo clean
```
This will always compile the latest nightly builds. If you want to build stable or beta, do a `git checkout stable` or `git checkout beta` first. This will always compile the latest nightly builds. If you want to build stable or beta, do a `git checkout stable` or `git checkout beta` first.
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