[Erlangweb-users] Operator error or perhaps a bug report

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I've been playing with erlangweb-1.1 and I had a bit of trouble
getting it started.  I'm using Erlang R12B-4 on a stable up to date
Gentoo system.  I'm using the supplied yaws 1.73 rather than my own.

I've read the tutorial.  It's not clear to me if the initial
bin/start.erl escript is *supposed* to be run in an empty directory of
my choosing or whether it can only be run where I chose to unpack and
make the erlang-web distribution.

I may be having erlang environment troubles or I might be having PEBKAC
troubles.  If I run the escript inside the erlangweb distribution
directory everything works just fine.  (Well almost just fine, there are
some non-portable nits in the various scripts (and the already known
en.conf problem) but once fixed it goes ok.)

If I run the escript inside an empty directory *with* ERL_LIBS set to an
appropriate ".../erlangweb-1.1/lib" value it seems to be fine.  (with
the exception that there's a mixup between the yaws.conf file and
yaws.config pre-configured in the skeleton).  Once the problems are
fixed it still won't go.  Here's why.

The following files and directories are NOT copied by the escript

yaws-1.73/include/*

lib/wpart-1.1/ebin/utf8.beam
lib/wpart-1.1/ebin/utf8_api.beam
lib/wpart-1.1/ebin/validate_tool.beam
lib/wpart-1.1/ebin/wpart_utils.beam

and

lib/wparts-1.1/ebin/wpart_gen.beam

Once these are copies it works great.

I don't have any experience (beyond this one) working with erlang
releases or huge or elaborate erlang setups.  I've not looked further
into trying to figure out why these particular beam files are not
copied, every other beam file is copied.

- paul