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

[Michal P. <pau...@gm...>]

Hello!

2008/11/7 Paul R. Bernard <pr...@do...>:
> 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.

Thanks for that remark - we will correct the tutorial so everything
will be cleaner.

> 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.

I have checked the .app files and noticed, that we have missed those
files in modules section. So once again - thank you for pointing out
that bug :)

Best regards,
Michal Ptaszek

>
> - paul