I am guessing that he is referencing the actual erts binary. Basically was
it compiled with the correct flags at the configure step..

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Dave Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Eric Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Is there anyway that we can verify that the binary was compiled the
> > correct way. Off the top of my head I guess we could parse the output
> > of erl (the flags at the top). I would love it if we could detect
> > erlang installs compiled incorrectly and not push them.
>
> Which binary in specific are you concerned about here?
>
> D.
>
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Martin Logan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >> This is very nifty. I think we can put directions on the wiki and the
> google
> >> code page offering this as an alternate install method.   This does not
> >> quite work yet though for me.  Everything was installed into Erts 5.6.2
> but
> >> faxien is compiled for 5.6.3 so when faxien went and tried to upgrade
> itself
> >> I got:
> >>
> >> Untaring into /usr/local/erlware
> >>
> >> *** Faxien is now installed ***
> >>
> >> Checking repos for any upgrades
> >> /usr/local/erlware/bin/faxien: line 25:
> >> /usr/local/erlware/packages/5.6.3/erts-5.6.3/bin/erlexec: No such file
> or
> >> directory
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Dave Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The sinan/faxien paradox for cutting new releases of the bootstrapper
> >>> has bugged me for some time. Today I finally sat down and did
> >>> something about it. I've just pushed up some new scripts in my private
> >>> faxien repo (git://github.com/dizzyd/faxien.git). These scripts enable
> >>> one to build a new bootstrapper for faxien using only the scripts and
> >>> a standard erlang install.
> >>>
> >>> So far, I've tested with Linux and OSX and everything seems to work
> >>> properly. I'd appreciate feedback if you guys can play with it a bit.
> >>>
> >>> Prerequisites:
> >>> * bash
> >>> * svn
> >>> * git
> >>> * Stock erlang somewhere (i.e. erlc is on your path)
> >>>
> >>> Getting started:
> >>> 1. Clone faxien from git://github.com/dizzyd/faxien.git
> >>> 2. cd scripts/bootstrapper
> >>> 3. ./bootstrap
> >>>
> >>> When it's all done, you'll have a new shell script that is the basic
> >>> faxien install.
> >>>
> >>> The only downside to this tool is that it assumes the HEAD of several
> >>> git repos is the released version (which is typically the case).
> >>> However, old bootstrappers (built by hand I suppose) had some version
> >>> discrepancies:
> >>> * cryptographic (on mainline erlware.git repo) is version 0.2.0 -- the
> >>> V6 bootstrapper includes a 0.2.1, so the repo must have unpushed
> >>> changes on someone's hard drive :)
> >>
> >> hmmm, I wonder who that could be :)
> >>
> >>>
> >>> * ewlib is version 0.8.2.0 (on mainline erlware.git repo) -- the V6
> >>> bootstrapper includes 0.8.0.2 -- perhaps a typo?
> >>
> >> Nope, this is no typo, this is correct.  The changes I made to fix the
> tar
> >> problem Matt highlighted minor revved the lib twice :-0
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Martin
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >
> > >
> >
>
> >
>

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