On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 22:57, Martin Logan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Torben Hoffmann
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Well, that sort of explains why my feeble attempt to locate the file
> failed
> > so miserably!
> >
> > Maybe it is my lack of understanding of how Faxien works that throws me
> off,
> > but if I understand you correctly the
> >
> > faxien fetch-release ...
> >
> > provides you with a "template" that should be updated to reflect the new
> > release.
>
> Faxien fetch-release really just pulls the release package and locates
> it locally.  Faxien install-release goes the extra step of installing
> that package for you.  Fetch release pulls the package but does not
> install it which means that the package is nicely isolated for you.
> This means you can analyse it or directly modify it and publish it
> with no distraction from other packages.
>

Nice.


>
> >
> > But what do you then do with the platform specific files in a new release
> as
> > well as the new applications? How do you get the new versions from
> > erlang.org integrated in your system?
>
> We support mac and linux by default. If you want others you may want
> to install erlang/otp directly and leverage what is already in the lib
> dir. You can also publish those files to a local repo if you are
> working with more than one developer.
>

So you actively compile Erlang for these platforms, right? (That was what I
meant by getting new versions from erlang.org).


>
> >
> > Anyway, now that I have id'ed something I would like to change for the
> > current release how should I go about doing that?
> > The change is simple enough, though:
> >
> > ERL_LIBS=$ROOTDIR/lib:$ERL_LIBS
> >
> > A simple additing of the current ERL_LIBS variable and one is set to go.
>
> Good call - I will make the change and publish it for you. Give me a
> couple of days.
>

Lovely!

Cheers,
Torben


>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Torben
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 19:34, Martin Logan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> the repo that contains the erlware/bin/erl file? Ahh, there is no
> >> repository that contians it actually. It is a release that lives only
> >> in the erlware repo. The process on that one is that as soon as a new
> >> version of Erlang/OTP is released we pull the erl release as such
> >>
> >> faxien fetch-release erl ./
> >>
> >> and then modify it to reflect the latest versions of everything and
> >> publish it anew.
> >>
> >> Is that the info you are looking for?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Martin
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:22 PM, LeHoff <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I have managed to get faxien to install Erlang on my new Mac
> >> > (Snowleopard) so now I am done with other ways of installing Erlang.
> >> >
> >> > However, erlware has a fondness for overwriting the ERL_LIBS variable
> >> > which I happen to to use for an application which is not yet part of
> >> > erlware (neotoma - I will put it in when I have a setup that works
> >> > 100%).
> >> >
> >> > I would like to change erlware/bin/erl to use an existing ERL_LIBS
> >> > value instead of forcing erlware/lib on everything.
> >> > (If this is a bad thing to want please explain so I can become wiser!)
> >> >
> >> > How do I find the repository which contains this file?
> >> > Zapping through the repos seems somewhat inefficient to me...
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > Torben
> >> >
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