This document describes how to build and install Erlang/OTP-%OTP-REL%. Erlang/OTP should be possible to build from source on any Unix/Linux system, including macOS. You are advised to read the whole document before attempting to build and install Erlang/OTP.
The source code can be downloaded from the official site of Erlang/OTP or GitHub.
These are the tools you need in order to unpack and build Erlang/OTP.
make
gcc
or the C compiler frontend for LLVM, clang
.ncurses
, termcap
, or termlib
-- The development headers and
libraries are needed, often known as ncurses-devel
. Use
--without-termcap
to build without any of these libraries. Note that
in this case only the old shell (without any line editing) can be used.sed
-- Stream Editor for basic text transformation.Build the same way as when building the unpacked tar file.
install
program that can take multiple file names.Some applications are automatically skipped if the dependencies aren't met. Here is a list of utilities needed for those applications. You will also find the utilities needed for building the documentation.
OpenSSL -- The opensource toolkit for Secure Socket Layer
and Transport Layer Security.
Required for building the application crypto
.
Further, ssl
and ssh
require a working crypto application and
will also be skipped if OpenSSL is missing. The public_key
application is available without crypto
, but the functionality
will be very limited.
The development package of OpenSSL including the header files are needed as well
as the binary command program openssl
. At least version 0.9.8 of OpenSSL is required.
Read more and download from http://www.openssl.org.
Oracle Java SE JDK -- The Java Development Kit (Standard Edition).
Required for building the application jinterface
.
At least version 1.6.0 of the JDK is required.
Download from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads. We have also tested with IBM's JDK 1.6.0.
flex
-- Headers and libraries are needed to build the flex
scanner for the megaco
application on Unix/Linux.
wxWidgets -- Toolkit for GUI applications.
Required for building the wx
application. At least
version 3.0 of wxWidgets is required.
Download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/3.0.0/ or get it from GitHub: https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets
Further instructions on wxWidgets, read Building with wxErlang.
ex_doc
-- ExDoc is a tool to
generate html and epub documentation for Erlang and Elixir projects.
Download as an escript from github or get it from GitHub: https://github.com/elixir-lang/ex_doc and build your self.
ExDoc %EX_DOC_VSN% was used to build the documentation for this release, but any version after that should work just as well.
You can also use ./otp_build download_ex_doc
to download the correct version
from github.
The following instructions are for building the released source tar ball or from a git clone.
The variable $ERL_TOP
will be mentioned a lot of times. It refers to
the top directory in the source tree. More information about $ERL_TOP
can be found in the make and $ERL_TOP section below.
Start by unpacking the Erlang/OTP distribution file with your GNU compatible TAR program.
$ tar -zxf otp_src_%OTP-VSN%.tar.gz # Assuming bash/sh
or clone from github:
$ git clone https://github.com/erlang/otp otp_src_%OTP-VSN%
Now change directory into the base directory and set the $ERL_TOP
variable.
$ cd otp_src_%OTP-VSN%
$ export ERL_TOP=`pwd` # Assuming bash/sh
Run the following commands to configure the build:
$ ./configure [ options ]
By default, Erlang/OTP release will be installed in /usr/local/{bin,lib/erlang}
.
If you for instance don't have the permission to install in the standard location,
you can install Erlang/OTP somewhere else. For example, to install in
/opt/erlang/%OTP-VSN%/{bin,lib/erlang}
, use the --prefix=/opt/erlang/%OTP-VSN%
option.
On some platforms Perl may behave strangely if certain locales are set. If you get errors when building, try setting the LANG variable:
$ export LANG=C # Assuming bash/sh
Build the Erlang/OTP release.
$ make
Before installation you should test whether your build is working properly by running our smoke test. The smoke test is a subset of the complete Erlang/OTP test suites. First you will need to build and release the test suites.
$ make release_tests
This creates an additional folder in $ERL_TOP/release
called tests
.
Now, it's time to start the smoke test.
$ cd release/tests/test_server
$ $ERL_TOP/bin/erl -s ts install -s ts smoke_test batch -s init stop
To verify that everything is ok you should open $ERL_TOP/release/tests/test_server/index.html
in your web browser and make sure that there are zero failed test cases.
Note {: .info }
On builds without
crypto
,ssl
andssh
there is a failed test case for undefined functions. Verify that the failed test case log only shows calls to skipped applications.
You are now ready to install the Erlang/OTP release! The following command will install the release on your system.
$ make install
You should now have a working release of Erlang/OTP! Jump to System Principles for instructions on running Erlang/OTP.
{: #How-to-Build-and-Install-Erlang-OTP_How-to-Build-the-Documentation }
Make sure you're in the top directory in the source tree.
$ cd $ERL_TOP
If you have just built Erlang/OTP in the current source tree, you have
already ran configure
and do not need to do this again; otherwise, run
configure
.
$ ./configure [Configure Args]
When building the documentation you need a full Erlang/OTP-%OTP-VSN% system in
the $PATH
.
$ export PATH=$ERL_TOP/bin:$PATH # Assuming bash/sh
To build html
and epub
docs you need to have ExDoc %EX_DOC_VSN%.
See Building Documentation for information on how to
install ExDoc.
Build the documentation using:
$ make docs
It is possible to limit which types of documentation is build by passing the DOC_TARGETS
environment variable to make docs
.
Example:
$ make docs DOC_TARGETS=chunks
The currently available types are: html
and chunks
. Where:
The documentation can be installed either using the install-docs
target,
or using the release_docs
target.
If you have installed Erlang/OTP using the install
target, install
the documentation using the install-docs
target. Install locations
determined by configure
will be used. $DESTDIR
can be used the
same way as when doing make install
.
$ make install-docs
If you have installed Erlang/OTP using the release
target, install
the documentation using the release_docs
target. You typically want
to use the same RELEASE_ROOT
as when invoking make release
.
$ make release_docs RELEASE_ROOT=<release dir>
It is possible to limit which types of documentation is released using the same DOC_TARGETS
environment variable as when building documentation.
After installation you can access the documentation by
Browsing the html pages by loading the page /usr/local/lib/erlang/doc/erlang/index.html
or <BaseDir>/lib/erlang/doc/erlang/index.html
if the prefix option has been used.
Read the embedded documentation by using the built-in shell functions h/1,2,3
or
ht/1,2,3
.
Pre-formatted html documentation can be downloaded from http://www.erlang.org/download.html.
Extract the html archive in the installation directory.
$ cd <ReleaseDir>
$ tar -zxf otp_html_%OTP-VSN%.tar.gz
Where <ReleaseDir>
is
<PrefixDir>/lib/erlang
if you have installed Erlang/OTP using
make install
.$DESTDIR<PrefixDir>/lib/erlang
if you have installed Erlang/OTP
using make install DESTDIR=<TmpInstallDir>
.RELEASE_ROOT
if you have installed using
make release RELEASE_ROOT=<ReleaseDir>
.If you want to tailor your Erlang/OTP build and installation, please read on for detailed information about the individual steps.
{: #advanced-configuration-and-build-of-erlang-otp_make-and-ERLTOP }
All the makefiles in the entire directory tree use the environment
variable ERL_TOP
to find the absolute path of the installation. The
configure
script will figure this out and set it in the top level
Makefile (which, when building, it will pass on). However, when
developing it is sometimes convenient to be able to run make in a
subdirectory. To do this you must set the ERL_TOP
variable
before you run make.
For example, assume your GNU make program is called make
and you
want to rebuild the application STDLIB
, then you could do:
$ cd lib/stdlib; env ERL_TOP=<Dir> make
where <Dir>
would be what you find ERL_TOP
is set to in the top level
Makefile.
Building Erlang/OTP can be done either by using the $ERL_TOP/otp_build
script, or by invoking $ERL_TOP/configure
and make
directly. Building using
otp_build
is easier since it involves fewer steps, but the otp_build
build
procedure is not as flexible as the configure
/make
build procedure. The binary
releases for Windows that we deliver are built using otp_build
.
{: #advanced-configuration-and-build-of-erlang-otp_configuring }
The configure script is created by the GNU autoconf utility, which checks for system specific features and then creates a number of makefiles.
The configure script allows you to customize a number of parameters;
type ./configure --help
or ./configure --help=recursive
for details.
./configure --help=recursive
will give help for all configure
scripts in
all applications.
One of the things you can specify is where Erlang/OTP should be installed. By
default Erlang/OTP will be installed in /usr/local/{bin,lib/erlang}
.
To keep the same structure but install in a different place, <Dir>
say,
use the --prefix
argument like this: ./configure --prefix=<Dir>
.
Some of the available configure
options are:
--prefix=PATH
- Specify installation prefix.--disable-parallel-configure
- Disable parallel execution of
configure
scripts (parallel execution is enabled by default)--{enable,disable}-jit
- Force enabling or disabling of the JIT.--{enable,disable}-kernel-poll
- Kernel poll support (enabled by
default if possible)--enable-m64-build
- Build 64-bit binaries using the -m64
flag to
(g)cc
--enable-m32-build
- Build 32-bit binaries using the -m32
flag to
(g)cc
--{enable,disable}-pie
- Build position independent executable binaries.--with-assumed-cache-line-size=SIZE
- Set assumed cache-line size in
bytes. Default is 64. Valid values are powers of two between and
including 16 and 8192. The runtime system use this value in order to
try to avoid false sharing. A too large value wastes memory. A to
small value will increase the amount of false sharing.--{with,without}-termcap
- termcap (without implies that only the old
Erlang shell can be used)--with-javac=JAVAC
- Specify Java compiler to use--{with,without}-javac
- Java compiler (without implies that the
jinterface
application won't be built)--{enable,disable}-builtin-zlib
- Use the built-in source for zlib.--{enable,disable}-dynamic-ssl-lib
- Enable or disable dynamic OpenSSL
libraries when linking the crypto NIF. By default dynamic linking is
done unless it does not work or is if it is a Windows system.--{with,without}-ssl
- OpenSSL (without implies that the crypto
,
ssh
, and ssl
won't be built)--with-ssl=PATH
- Specify base location of OpenSSL include and lib
directories.--with-ssl-incl=PATH
- Specify base location of OpenSSL include
directory (if different than base location specified by --with-ssl=PATH).--with-ssl-zlib=PATH
- Path to static zlib library to link the
crypto NIF with. This zlib library is most often not necessary but
might be needed in order to link the NIF in some cases.--with-ssl-lib-subdir=RELATIVE_PATH
- Specify extra OpenSSL lib
sub-directory to search in (relative to base directory).--with-ssl-rpath=yes|no|PATHS
- Runtime library path for OpenSSL.
Default is yes
, which equates to a number of standard locations. If
no
, then no runtime library paths will be used. Anything else should be
a comma or colon separated list of paths.--with-libatomic_ops=PATH
- Use the libatomic_ops
library for atomic
memory accesses. If configure
should inform you about no native atomic
implementation available, you typically want to try using the
libatomic_ops
library. It can be downloaded from
https://github.com/ivmai/libatomic_ops/.--disable-smp-require-native-atomics
- By default configure
will
fail if an SMP runtime system is about to be built, and no implementation
for native atomic memory accesses can be found. If this happens, you are
encouraged to find a native atomic implementation that can be used, e.g.,
using libatomic_ops
, but by passing --disable-smp-require-native-atomics
you can build using a fallback implementation based on mutexes or spinlocks.
Performance of the SMP runtime system will however suffer immensely without
an implementation for native atomic memory accesses.--enable-static-{nifs,drivers}
- To allow usage of nifs and drivers on OSs
that do not support dynamic linking of libraries it is possible to statically
link nifs and drivers with the main Erlang VM binary. This is done by passing
a comma separated list to the archives that you want to statically link. e.g.
--enable-static-nifs=/home/$USER/my_nif.a
. The paths have to be absolute.
For drivers, the driver name has to be the same as the filename. You also
have to define STATIC_ERLANG_NIF_LIBNAME
(see erl_nif
documentation) or
STATIC_ERLANG_DRIVER
when compiling the .o files for the nif/driver.
If your nif/driver depends on some other dynamic library, you now have to link
that to the Erlang VM binary. This is easily achieved by passing LIBS=-llibname
to configure.--without-$app
- By default all applications in Erlang/OTP will be included
in a release. If this is not wanted it is possible to specify that Erlang/OTP
should be compiled without one or more applications, i.e. --without-wx
. There is
no automatic dependency handling between applications. If you disable
an application that another application depends on, you also have to disable the
dependent application.--enable-gettimeofday-as-os-system-time
- Force usage of gettimeofday()
for
OS system time.--enable-prefer-elapsed-monotonic-time-during-suspend
- Prefer an OS monotonic
time source with elapsed time during suspend.--disable-prefer-elapsed-monotonic-time-during-suspend
- Do not prefer an OS
monotonic time source with elapsed time during suspend.--with-clock-resolution=high|low
- Try to find clock sources for OS system
time, and OS monotonic time with higher or lower resolution than chosen by
default. Note that both alternatives may have a negative impact on the performance
and scalability compared to the default clock sources chosen.--enable-ensure-os-monotonic-time
- Enable functionality ensuring the
monotonicity of monotonic timestamps delivered by the OS. When a
non-monotonic timestamp is detected, it will be replaced by the last
delivered monotonic timestamp before being used by Erlang's time
functionality. Note that you do not want to enable this unless the OS
monotonic time source on the system fails to produce monotonic timestamps.
This since ensuring the monotonicity of OS monotonic timestamps will hurt
scalability and performance of the system.--disable-saved-compile-time
- Disable saving of compile date and time
in the emulator binary.--enable-ei-dynamic-lib
- Make erl_interface build a shared library in addition
to the archive normally built.--disable-year2038
- Don't support timestamps after mid-January 2038. By
default configure
will try to enable support for timestamps after
mid-January 2038. If it cannot figure out how to do that, it will fail and
abort with an error. If you anyway want to build the system knowing that the
system won't function properly after mid-January 2038, you can pass this
option which will enable configure
to continue without support for
timestamps after mid-January 2038. This is typically only an issue on 32-bit
platforms.If you or your system has special requirements please read the Makefile
for
additional configuration information.
{: #advanced-configuration-and-build-of-erlang-otp_Configuring_Important-Variables-Inspected-by-configure }
CC
- C compiler.CFLAGS
- C compiler flags. Defaults to "-g -O2". If you set it,
these will be removed.STATIC_CFLAGS
- Static C compiler flags.CFLAG_RUNTIME_LIBRARY_PATH
- This flag should set runtime library
search path for the shared libraries. Note that this actually is a
linker flag, but it needs to be passed via the compiler.CPP
- C pre-processor.CPPFLAGS
- C pre-processor flags.CXX
- C++ compiler.CXXFLAGS
- C++ compiler flags.LD
- Linker.LDFLAGS
- Linker flags.LIBS
- Libraries.Note {: .info }
Either set all or none of the
DED_LD*
variables (with the exception ofDED_LDFLAGS_CONFTEST
).
DED_LD
- Linker for Dynamically loaded Erlang Drivers.DED_LDFLAGS
- Linker flags to use with DED_LD
.DED_LDFLAGS_CONFTEST
- Linker flags to use with DED_LD
in configure
link tests if DED_LDFLAGS
cannot be used in such tests. If not set,
DED_LDFLAGS
will be used in configure tests.DED_LD_FLAG_RUNTIME_LIBRARY_PATH
- This flag should set runtime library
search path for shared libraries when linking with DED_LD
.Note {: .info }
Either set all or none of the
LFS_*
variables.
LFS_CFLAGS
- Large file support C compiler flags.LFS_LDFLAGS
- Large file support linker flags.LFS_LIBS
- Large file support libraries.RANLIB
- ranlib
archive index tool.AR
- ar
archiving tool.GETCONF
- getconf
system configuration inspection tool. getconf
is
currently used for finding out large file support flags to use, and
on Linux systems for finding out if we have an NPTL thread library or
not.Generated configure
scripts are nowadays included in the git repository.
If you modify any configure.in
files or the erts/aclocal.m4
file, you need
to regenerate configure
scripts before the changes will take effect. First
ensure that you have GNU autoconf
of version 2.69 in your path. Then execute
./otp_build update_configure [--no-commit]
in the $ERL_TOP
directory. The
otp_build
script will verify that autoconf
is of correct version and will
refuse to update the configure
scripts if it is of any other version.
{: #advanced-configuration-and-build-of-erlang-otp_configuring_atomic-memory-operations-and-the-vm }
The VM with SMP support makes quite a heavy use of atomic memory operations. An implementation providing native atomic memory operations is therefore very important when building Erlang/OTP. By default the VM will refuse to build if native atomic memory operations are not available.
Erlang/OTP itself provides implementations of native atomic memory operations
that can be used when compiling with a gcc
compatible compiler for 32/64-bit
x86, 32/64-bit SPARC V9, 32-bit PowerPC, or 32-bit Tile. When compiling with
a gcc
compatible compiler for other architectures, the VM may be able to make
use of native atomic operations using the __atomic_*
builtins (may be
available when using a gcc
of at least version 4.7) and/or using the
__sync_*
builtins (may be available when using a gcc
of at least version
4.1). If only the gcc
's __sync_*
builtins are available, the performance
will suffer. Such a configuration should only be used as a last resort. When
compiling on Windows using a MicroSoft Visual C++ compiler native atomic
memory operations are provided by Windows APIs.
Native atomic implementation in the order preferred:
gcc
__atomic_*
builtins.libatomic_ops
library provides native atomic memory
operations for a variety of architectures and compilers. When building
Erlang/OTP you need to inform the build system of where the
libatomic_ops
library is installed using the
--with-libatomic_ops=PATH
configure
switch.gcc
__sync_*
builtins. This will however cause lots of expensive and
unnecessary memory barrier instructions to be issued. That is,
performance will suffer. The configure
script will warn at the end
of its execution if it cannot find any other alternative than this.Building Erlang/OTP on a relatively fast computer takes approximately
5 minutes. To speed it up, you can utilize parallel make with the -j<num_jobs>
option.
$ export MAKEFLAGS=-j8 # Assuming bash/sh
$ make
If you've upgraded the source with a patch you may need to clean up from previous
builds before the new build.
Make sure to read the Pre-built Source Release section below before doing a make clean
.
Other useful information can be found here:
{: #advanced-configuration-and-build-of-erlang-otp_Building_macOS-Darwin }
Make sure that the command hostname
returns a valid fully qualified host
name (this is configured in /etc/hostconfig
). Otherwise you might experience
problems when running distributed systems.
If you develop linked-in drivers (shared library) you need to link using
gcc
and the flags -bundle -flat_namespace -undefined suppress
. You also
include -fno-common
in CFLAGS
when compiling. Use .so
as the library
suffix.
If you have Xcode 4.3, or later, you will also need to download "Command Line Tools" via the Downloads preference pane in Xcode.
{: #advanced-configuration-and-build-of-erlang-otp_Building_Building-with-wxErlang }
wxWidgets-3.2.x is recommended for building the wx
application
(wxWidgets-3.0.x will also work). Download it from
https://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads or from
https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets. It is recommended to use the
latest release in the 3.2 series, which at the time of writing
is 3.2.2.1.
Note that the wxWidgets-3.3 versions are experimental, but they should
also work if 3.0 compatibility is enabled by adding
--enable-compat30
to the configure
commands below.
On all other platforms, a shared library is built as follows:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
$ make && sudo make install
$ export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
On Linux, a static library is built as follows:
$ export CFLAGS=-fPIC
$ export CXXFLAGS=-fPIC
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-shared
$ make && sudo make install
$ export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
On macOs, a static library compatible with macOS 13 (Ventura) and later is built as follows:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-macosx-version-min=13.0 --disable-shared
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
Verify that the build and installation succeeded:
$ which wx-config && wx-config --version-full
Expected output is /usr/local/bin/wx-config
on one line, followed by the full
version number. For example, if you built version 3.2.2.1, the expected output is:
/usr/local/bin/wx-config
3.2.2.1
Build Erlang/OTP in the usual way. To verify that wx
application is
working run the following command:
$ erl -run wx demo
{: #advanced-configuration-and-build-of-erlang-otp_Building_Prebuilt-Source-Release }
The source release is delivered with a lot of platform independent
build results already pre-built. If you want to remove these pre-built
files, invoke ./otp_build remove_prebuilt_files
from the $ERL_TOP
directory. After you have done this, you can build exactly the same way
as before, but the build process will take a much longer time.
Warning {: .warning }
Doing
make clean
in an arbitrary directory of the source tree, may remove files needed for bootstrapping the build.Doing
./otp_build save_bootstrap
from the$ERL_TOP
directory before doingmake clean
will ensure that it will be possible to build after doingmake clean
../otp_build save_bootstrap
will be invoked automatically whenmake
is invoked from$ERL_TOP
with either theclean
target, or the default target. It is also automatically invoked if./otp_build remove_prebuilt_files
is invoked.If you need to verify the bootstrap beam files match the provided source files, use
./otp_build update_primary
to create a new commit that contains differences, if any exist.
{: #advanced-configuration-and-build-of-erlang-otp_building_how-to-build-a-debug-enabled-erlang-runtime-system }
After completing all the normal building steps described above a debug
enabled runtime system can be built. To do this you have to change
directory to $ERL_TOP/erts/emulator
and execute:
$ (cd $ERL_TOP/erts/emulator && make debug)
This will produce a beam.debug.smp
executable. The
file are installed along side with the normal (opt) version beam.smp
.
To start the debug enabled runtime system execute:
$ $ERL_TOP/bin/cerl -debug
The debug enabled runtime system features lock violation checking, assert checking and various sanity checks to help a developer ensure correctness. Some of these features can be enabled on a normal beam using appropriate configure options.
There are other types of runtime systems that can be built as well using the similar steps just described.
$ (cd $ERL_TOP/erts/emulator && make $TYPE)
where $TYPE
is opt
, gcov
, gprof
, debug
, valgrind
, asan
or lcnt
.
These different beam types are useful for debugging and profiling
purposes.
Staged install using DESTDIR. You can perform the install
phase in a temporary directory and later move the installation into
its correct location by use of the DESTDIR
variable:
$ make DESTDIR=<tmp install dir> install
The installation will be created in a location prefixed by $DESTDIR
.
It can, however, not be run from there. It needs to be moved into the
correct location before it can be run. If DESTDIR
have not been set
but INSTALL_PREFIX
has been set, DESTDIR
will be set to
INSTALL_PREFIX
. Note that INSTALL_PREFIX
in pre R13B04 was buggy
and behaved as EXTRA_PREFIX
(see below). There are lots of areas of
use for an installation procedure using DESTDIR
, e.g. when creating
a package, cross compiling, etc. Here is an example where the
installation should be located under /opt/local
:
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/local
$ make
$ make DESTDIR=/tmp/erlang-build install
$ cd /tmp/erlang-build/opt/local
$ # gnu-tar is used in this example
$ tar -zcf /home/me/my-erlang-build.tgz *
$ su -
Password: *****
$ cd /opt/local
$ tar -zxf /home/me/my-erlang-build.tgz
Install using the release
target. Instead of doing make install
you
can create the installation in whatever directory you like using the
release
target and run the Install
script yourself. RELEASE_ROOT
is used for specifying the directory where the installation should be
created. This is what by default ends up under /usr/local/lib/erlang
if you do the install using make install
. All installation paths
provided in the configure
phase are ignored, as well as DESTDIR
,
and INSTALL_PREFIX
. If you want links from a specific bin
directory
to the installation you have to set those up yourself. An example where
Erlang/OTP should be located at /home/me/OTP
:
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make RELEASE_ROOT=/home/me/OTP release
$ cd /home/me/OTP
$ ./Install -minimal /home/me/OTP
$ mkdir -p /home/me/bin
$ cd /home/me/bin
$ ln -s /home/me/OTP/bin/erl erl
$ ln -s /home/me/OTP/bin/erlc erlc
$ ln -s /home/me/OTP/bin/escript escript
...
The Install
script should currently be invoked as follows in the
directory where it resides (the top directory):
$ ./Install [-cross] [-minimal|-sasl] <ERL_ROOT>
where:
-minimal
Creates an installation that starts up a minimal amount
of applications, i.e., only kernel
and stdlib
are started. The
minimal system is normally enough, and is what make install
uses.-sasl
Creates an installation that also starts up the sasl
application.-cross
For cross compilation. Informs the install script that it
is run on the build machine.<ERL_ROOT>
- The absolute path to the Erlang installation to use
at run time. This is often the same as the current working directory,
but does not have to be. It can follow any other path through the
file system to the same directory.If neither -minimal
, nor -sasl
is passed as argument you will be
prompted.
Test install using EXTRA_PREFIX
. The content of the EXTRA_PREFIX
variable will prefix all installation paths when doing make install
.
Note that EXTRA_PREFIX
is similar to DESTDIR
, but it does not have
the same effect as DESTDIR
. The installation can and have to be run
from the location specified by EXTRA_PREFIX
. That is, it can be useful
if you want to try the system out, running test suites, etc, before doing
the real install without EXTRA_PREFIX
.
When doing make install
and the default installation prefix is used,
relative symbolic links will be created from /usr/local/bin
to all public
Erlang/OTP executables in /usr/local/lib/erlang/bin
. The installation phase
will try to create relative symbolic links as long as --bindir
and the
Erlang bin directory, located under --libdir
, both have --exec-prefix
as
prefix. Where --exec-prefix
defaults to --prefix
. --prefix
,
--exec-prefix
, --bindir
, and --libdir
are all arguments that can be
passed to configure
. One can force relative, or absolute links by passing
BINDIR_SYMLINKS=relative|absolute
as arguments to make
during the install
phase. Note that such a request might cause a failure if the request cannot
be satisfied.
Erlang/OTP are currently tested on the following hardware and operating systems. This is not an exhaustive list, but we try to keep it as up to date as possible.
Architecture
Operating system
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