Hey man, Faxien has binary packages, for the most part this is great, Erlang's beam files are cross platform so there is no problem. However, a few apps have native code (usually C) as part of the binary and they need to have a different binary for each platform. Faxien supports this, but we don't have all that many platforms available to build on, so its hard to provide binaries for all the platforms out there. We rely on others to publish binaries for other platforms. So tools is one of these packages and the problem is that tools is not built for your platform. I am actually curious about that because I am running snow leopard as well. We can dig into that in a bit.
In any case, Tools is an application thats distributed as part of Erlang. The easiest way to install it is to install erlang R14B01 from scratch, the default distribution and faxien can sit beside each other no problem at all. You can get that here http://erlang.org/download/otp_src_R14B01.tar.gz That should provide you everything you need for the base install, and get you up and running. All the non-core sinan dependencies are generic, they don't contain native code and shouldn't cause a problem. some of the core app names from the erlang distro leave somethning to be desired, lol. Feel free to ping the list if you have problems. We are in the middle of doing a bunch of work on the erlware tools and really like feedback that helps us direct our efforts. Eric On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 05:52:14AM -0800, OmenKing wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm trying to get started with erlang and I was trying to install > sinan but it complained when it got to this point: > > ------- > Initiating Install for Remote Release sinan-0.22.1.4 > Release compiled for R14B01 > Pulling down xmerl-1.2.7 for R14B -> ok > Pulling down tools-2.6.6.2 {unable_to_pull_from_repos,"Couldn't get > tools.tar.gz from repos"} > ------- > > I have read somewhere before that I could just download tools, build > it myself, and reinstall faxion and it would know where tools is but I > don't know if thats true because I can't get as far to find "tools" to > download and compile. > > It doesn't look like there is a tools.2.6.6.2 on erlware, so I don't > know where to find it. I guess when the lib is called "tools" it can > be a bit hard to find. > > I'm running OSX Snow Leopard. > Erlang R14B01 (Need this version for Riak) > > What can I do buds? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "erlware-dev" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/erlware-dev?hl=en. -- Eric Merritt Erlang & OTP in Action (Manning) http://manning.com/logan http://twitter.com/ericbmerritt http://erlware.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "erlware-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/erlware-dev?hl=en.
