ErlrcInstall

Introduction

Do NOT attempt to build from a checkout from the source code repository: that is for wizards only. Instead, grab one of the released source tarballs from the downloads section.

This page will assist you in installing erlrc.[2]

Prerequisites:

1. gnu make
2. working erlang installation.

• debian: aptitude install erlang-dev
• os/x (with fink): apt-get install erlang-otp
• freebsd: pkg_add -r erlang
• others: ???

Go to the downloads section and grab the latest .tar.gz file.

# tar -zxf erlrc-0.1.14.tar.gz
# cd erlrc-0.1.14
# ./configure --prefix /usr/local && make && make -s check
...

The default prefix is /usr so if you are ok with that you can omit the prefix argument. Hopefully what you see[1] is something like

PASS: ok-boot-test-0
PASS: ok-boot-test-1
PASS: ok-boot-test-circular-1
PASS: ok-boot-test-circular-2
PASS: ok-boot-test-dependency-included
PASS: ok-boot-test-duplicate-included
PASS: ok-boot-test-nested-include
96% of 84 lines covered in ./erlrc.COVER.out
PASS: module-erlrc
94% of 1497 lines covered in ./erlrcdynamic.COVER.out
PASS: module-erlrcdynamic
PASS: test-start
PASS: test-stop
PASS: test-downgrade
PASS: test-upgrade
===================
All 13 tests passed
===================

If not, the test output for test-FOO is in tests/test-FOO.out; perhaps it is informative.

Now you can make install.

Next Steps

Check out ErlrcHowto

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Footnotes

## 1 If you see something like: ```no-highlight fw requires GNU make to build, you are using bsd make *** Error code 1

Stop.

Then you are using bsd make which will not work.  Try again with gnu make, e.g.,
```no-highlight
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local && gmake -s check

## 2 Downloadable source tarballs use automake to build. A source code checkout of the repository uses [framewerk](https://github.com/dukesoferl/fw) to build, and if you don't know what that is, you probably want to stick with the tarballs.