Comments on: Building Erlang on Snow Leopard

By: Raghavan

Raghavan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:52:34 +0000

Thanks for the update i’ve been having trouble getting erlang up and running in snowlepord, will try it out today

By: mtkd

mtkd — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:18:10 +0000

Thanks for this, and thanks for posting the commands themselves …

By: cult hero

cult hero — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:24:58 +0000

The trouble with couchdb was worth it just to find a patch that stopped all the stupid deps for erlang.

Unfortunately, I have the same problem. Got everything to build but couch doesn’t seem to be running. I wonder what gives. (I knew I should have resisted the UPDATE NOW NEW AND SHINY THINGS impulse.)

By: Sho

Sho — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:46:33 +0000

Why the hell does erlang have WxWidgets and TK as dependencies anyway? There are no such dependencies when you build it from source!

Damn macports, it’s only slightly better than nothing. Thanks for the help anyway, saved me a lot of time.

By: tobyjoe

tobyjoe — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:49:22 +0000

Thanks for the advice. You’re free to write a comprehensive article and publish it and I will happily link to it.

My guess is that anyone looking to manually patch a functional programming language on a pre-release operating system seeded to developers already knows how to change directories.

If they don’t, there are many resources they should study before patching Erlang.

By: rjrr

rjrr — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:40:27 +0000

Why don’t you just tell people what to do instead of giving them commands to paste without understanding? People should know how to change directories and use patch, and if not then they should learn.