such fedora. fatal exception. wow.

[d3matt]

Trying to build on fedora 20. Get an exception when I run dogecoin-qt

A fatal error occured. DogeCoin can no longer continue safely and will quit.

EXCEPTION: 9key_error       
CKey::CKey() : EC_KEY_new_by_curve_name failed       
dogecoin in Runaway exception.

build using:

/usr/lib64/qt4/bin/qmake "USE_UPNP=1"
make

[d3matt]

looks like the fedora team explicitly removed secp256k1 support due to "legal" issues... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1021898

to make a fedora RPM, we'll either have to build openssl and link statically against it or include our own version of that curve...

[rEPHeMITa]

Just use a VM for now?

[capp-dev]

Hi, I put a patched source package here which should compile with recent Fedora distributions...

http://www.djvu-pdf.com/dogecoin-for-fedora.html

Hope that helps!

[ummjackson]

[Automated Message] We believe this issue has been addressed as part of the Dogecoin v1.5 update, currently in alpha. It builds on top of the latest Litecoin code base, bringing a range of improvements. Please review the active development repository at https://github.com/ummjackson/dogecoin-1_5_alpha (click "Releases" for up-to-date binaries) and if you still find issues, please report them or submit a pull request there. The 1.5 repository will overwrite the outdated 1.4.1 code base once tested and finalized. We will not be merging further pull requests on the 1.4 code base. Thanks for all your support, we really look forward to releasing 1.5 to the public!

[me-vlad]

Hello!

You can use my patch to build dogecoin 1.5.0 on fedora 20:
https://gist.github.com/me-vlad/8671110#file-dogecoin-1-5-0-fedora-20

Main idea is the same as in @djvupdf solution - link dogecoin-qt with custom openssl libs