Upgrade fails at compile cardano-node

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I have tried a lot of things, hopefully I can capture them all. When I try to build the 1.35.3 code, it fails with the following errors:

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HEAD is now at a56c96598 Delay SECP256k1 builtins to Chang (#4795)
HEAD is now at 181601b Merge pull request #4 from input-output-hk/coot/check-stylish
HEAD is now at 00ebe72 Added support for aeson-2.0, text-2.0, and GHC 9.2
Warning: Requested index-state 2022-02-18T00:00:00Z is newer than
'hackage.haskell.org'! Falling back to older state (2022-02-17T23:17:49Z).
Resolving dependencies...
cabal: Could not resolve dependencies:
[__0] trying: cardano-crypto-class-2.0.0 (user goal)
[__1] rejecting: cardano-crypto-class:+secp256k1-support (conflict: pkg-config
package libsecp256k1-any, not found in the pkg-config database)
[__1] rejecting: cardano-crypto-class:-secp256k1-support (manual flag can only
be changed explicitly)
[__1] fail (backjumping, conflict set: cardano-crypto-class,
cardano-crypto-class:secp256k1-support)
After searching the rest of the dependency tree exhaustively, these were the
goals I've had most trouble fulfilling: cardano-crypto-class,
cardano-crypto-class:secp256k1-support

I tried upgrading ghc to 9.4.1, and cabal to 3.8.1.0, cleaning the cardano-node repo pull, and trying again, that didn’t work (ghc --version returns 9.4.1 and I also tried 8.10.7).

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Clone repo into /home/stakepool/git/cardano-node
  2. Pull 1.35.3
  3. cabal configure
  4. Append lines to cabal.project.local (package, flags…)
  5. cabal build - I tried all, and I tried just cardano-cli and cardano-node

Then, I tried googling the errors I got, but none of the results worked to fix it.

I should add, I also tried to look at the pkg-conf errors, thought maybe I could find a package with apt-get to install, like libsecp256k1 or secp256k1, but no luck.

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OK, it looks like secp256k1 is required in Linux, which is detailed here. This was downloaded from github and built and installed (reboot required). Next question: I am assuming that this library is required to run Cardano-Node, not just link and build the binaries. So I would assume that it has to be installed on every machine that runs Cardano-node, correct?

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Right.

Look at the updated page, How to install cardano-node/-cli:

There you also find the new section Secp256k1

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