An update: The Arch linux CouchDB package already did similar things for the 1.6 package [1] where it patched CouchDB to accept Erlang 18.
Johannes [1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/erlang18.patch?h=packages/couchdb On 14.07.2016 12:14, Johannes Jörg Schmidt wrote: > I'm so exited about the release candidate I can't tell \o/ Thank you so > much! > > I tried to install the RC on my Arch Linux system. Sadly on my machine > is Erlang version 19 installed [1] but CouchDB requires Erlang up to > version 18 but not 19 and therefore did not build. > > I thought I give it a shot and changed rebar.config.script and > src/snappy/rebar.config to allow Erlang 19. The build went fine than but > CouchDB didn't start: > > [ * ] Check node at http://127.0.0.1:15984/ ... failed: <urlopen error > [Errno 111] Connection refused> > > I'm aware that this maybe was a silly try but why not :) - But what > would it take to support Erlang 19? > > Johannes > > [1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/erlang-nox/ > > On 13.07.2016 18:35, Jan Lehnardt wrote: >> Dear dev@, >> >> it’s been about three years in the making, but I think we are now at a point >> where we can start the CouchDB 2.0 release candidate phase. >> >> Before we set the process in stone, please give the tarball linked below a >> try, as if were the CouchDB 2.0 release, and please report any issues back. >> >> The instructions in >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BtndYr-0KDQTqBSLVdJoR_8C5ObYjT1RBo_Qyh5ykdQ/edit#heading=h.hxt36ze66vb3 >> (ignore the Docker bits above) should get you going with either a >> single-machine test cluster, or a proper multi-node setup. >> >> If any of this doesn’t work or is confusing, please report back here or in >> JIRA. >> >> Without further ado: >> >> >> https://home.apache.org/~jan/couchdb/2.0/RC/apache-couchdb-2.0.0-92c95de.tar.gz >> >> Happy testing and thanks in advance for your feedback! >> >> Best >> Jan >> > >
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