Re: [Erlyaws-list] OpenBSD port

[Claes W. <kl...@ta...>]

On 12/29/2010 01:50 PM, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse wrote:

>
> Regarding the configure patch, when I manually run the command that's in
> backticks for ERLDIR I get this: /usr/local/lib/erlang. Which is correct.
> Though without the patch configure bails out:
>
> erlexec: HOME must be set
> configure: error: Broken Erlang installation,  does not exist!
>
> Which does not make sense to me, so I took an axe and filled in the variables
> for configure.. :-)
>

Oops, erl needs HOME set, this is IMHO wrong, and an old ancient artifact.
Frankly I have no idea why this is so and it should be removed. It actually
brings a lot more problems than it allegedly solves. Many OSes do not set
HOME for code started by /etc/whatever at at boot.  I know I've spent time
tracking down why erlang servers don't start at boot.


$ unset HOME
$ erl
erlexec: HOME must be set


What you can do in the ports makefile, is set HOME before invoking me.

/klacke