On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:52:41PM -0400, Damien Katz wrote: > We need the ability to pass couchdb command line args down to the erlang > vm. We'll need this for configuring erlang distributed computing, and > need this for testing vm optimizations.
Yup, very useful. I looked at this problem ages ago though, so you will be pleased to know there is already a solution available to you. > Something like: > > $ ./couchdb -erl "-sname foo" The actual command you should run is either: $ ERL_AFLAGS="-sname foo" ./couchdb If you want to prepend the options, or: $ ERL_ZFLAGS="-sname foo" ./couchdb If you want to append them. There is a note in the "couchdb -h" hinting to this: Erlang inherits the environment of this command. I could make it more explicit if you like? Best. -- Noah Slater, http://people.apache.org/~nslater/
