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| author | Joseph Gordon <gordonj@us.ibm.com> | 2018-02-09 18:41:48 -0600 |
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| committer | Trivikram Kamat <16024985+trivikr@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-04-14 20:18:03 -0700 |
| commit | b003c86bf45d0689d7e77fce0489a6de888b0782 (patch) | |
| tree | ddbbeb4ca1e98a1d374536ab6b34bc28b34282f0 /BUILDING.md | |
| parent | 715d7f31b384723b1fc4691cfd54a3e6a1a56bb8 (diff) | |
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doc: improved flow for macOS firewall script
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18689
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md index da832c9c24..7b48bb7e05 100644 --- a/BUILDING.md +++ b/BUILDING.md @@ -124,18 +124,20 @@ On macOS, you will need to install the `Xcode Command Line Tools` by running installed, you can find them under the menu `Xcode -> Open Developer Tool -> More Developer Tools...`. This step will install `clang`, `clang++`, and `make`. -* After building, you may want to setup [firewall rules](tools/macosx-firewall.sh) -to avoid popups asking to accept incoming network connections when running -tests: If the path to your build directory contains a space, the build will likely fail. +After building, setting up [firewall rules](tools/macosx-firewall.sh) can avoid +popups asking to accept incoming network connections when running tests. + +Running the following script on macOS will add the firewall rules for the +executable `node` in the `out` directory and the symbolic `node` link in the +project's root directory. + ```console $ sudo ./tools/macosx-firewall.sh ``` -Running this script will add rules for the executable `node` in the `out` -directory and the symbolic `node` link in the project's root directory. On FreeBSD and OpenBSD, you may also need: * libexecinfo |