[erlang-questions] Erlang doesn't like ubuntu 6.10

Thu Nov 9 17:10:32 CET 2006

First: I am not qualified to give any expert advice on how to set up
production quality servers. However like probably most every other
programmer in the world, I have had to anyway of course.

I build from source too, though I "cheat" with the dependencies. "sudo
apt-get build-dep erlang" installs all packages needed to BUILD the latest
erlang-package from source, though not the erlang packages themselves. This
gives you a (hopefully) perfect environment to build from source yourself
(ie. "worked for me").

I don't think you need to worry to much about packages added if you keep an
eye open while running apt-get if you only add "universe" and "multiverse",
I think you'll be more likely to run into problems if you try to build all
dependencies from source yourself.

Anyway, this is starting to get more ubuntu-related than erlang, maybe we
should continue in private rather than on erlang-questions if you have more
questions?

/Tobias

On 11/9/06, ke han <ke.han@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> Thanks Tobias,  it appears you install erlang from some ubuntu repo.  I
> have always installed erlang on linux from source download at erlang.org
> .  Which repo do you need to uncomment in ubuntu to find erlang?  Its not
> in the default ones.
> Also, as a new ubuntu server user, I am concerned with opening up any but
> the core supported repos as they may bring in unsupported items when I
> install or upgrade.
> What is your approach?
> I am experimenting with a setup for what would be a production server, not
> some internal dev box.  I come from a FreeBSD world, so I'm used to starting
> minimal and adding only what I need.
> thanks, ke han
>
> On Nov 9, 2006, at 8:55 AM, Tobias Löfgren wrote:
>
> As others have mentioned, you need the m4 package, I cheated a bit and
> did:
>
> sudo apt-get build-dep erlang
>
> which installs everything needed for building from source. Especially
> useful as when starting from an almost empty ubuntu server install as I did.
>
>
> /tobias
>
> On 11/8/06, ke han <ke.han@REDACTED> wrote:
> >
> > Tobias,
> > I am installing erlang on ubuntu for the  first time.  It is OTP
> > R11B-1 on "ubuntu 6.06.1 server".
> > This is a new install of ubuntu and all I added after the install was:
> > openssh, build-essential, libncurses5-dev, libssl-dev and openssl.
> > These last three items I added in order to get ./configure to work.
> >
> > When I run make, it dies as follows:
> >
> > jhancock@REDACTED:~/otp_src_R11B-1$ make
> > cd erts/emulator && ERL_TOP=/home/jhancock/otp_src_R11B-1 make
> > generate depend
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jhancock/otp_src_R11B-1/erts/
> > emulator'
> > make -f i686-pc-linux-gnu/Makefile generate
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jhancock/otp_src_R11B-1/erts/
> > emulator'
> > /bin/mkdir -p i686-pc-linux-gnu/opt/plain
> > /bin/mkdir -p obj/i686-pc-linux-gnu/opt/plain
> > LANG=C /usr/bin/perl utils/beam_makeops -outdir i686-pc-linux-gnu/opt/
> > plain \
> >                  -emulator /home/jhancock/otp_src_R11B-1/lib/compiler/
> > src/genop.tab beam/ops.tab beam/frag_ops.tab hipe/hipe_ops.tab
> > LANG=C /usr/bin/perl utils/make_tables -src i686-pc-linux-gnu -
> > include i686-pc-linux-gnu beam/atom.names beam/bif.tab hipe/
> > hipe_bif0.tab hipe/hipe_bif1.tab hipe/hipe_bif2.tab hipe/hipe_x86.tab
> > LANG=C /usr/bin/perl utils/make_version -o i686-pc-linux-gnu/
> > erl_version.h R11B 5.5.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > LANG=C /usr/bin/perl utils/make_driver_tab -o i686-pc-linux-gnu/
> > driver_tab.c obj/i686-pc-linux-gnu/opt/plain/efile_drv.o obj/i686-pc-
> > linux-gnu/opt/plain/ddll_drv.o obj/i686-pc-linux-gnu/opt/plain/
> > inet_drv.o obj/i686-pc-linux-gnu/opt/plain/zlib_drv.o obj/i686-pc-
> > linux-gnu/opt/plain/ram_file_drv.o obj/i686-pc-linux-gnu/opt/plain/
> > ttsl_drv.o
> > LANG=C /usr/bin/perl utils/make_alloc_types -src beam/erl_alloc.types
> > -dst i686-pc-linux-gnu/opt/plain/erl_alloc_types.h threads hipe unix
> > LANG=C /usr/bin/perl utils/make_preload -old /home/jhancock/
> > otp_src_R11B-1/lib/kernel/ebin/otp_ring0.beam /home/jhancock/
> > otp_src_R11B-1/lib/kernel/ebin/init.beam /home/jhancock/
> > otp_src_R11B-1/lib/kernel/ebin/prim_inet.beam /home/jhancock/
> > otp_src_R11B-1/lib/kernel/ebin/prim_file.beam /home/jhancock/
> > otp_src_R11B-1/lib/kernel/ebin/erl_prim_loader.beam /home/jhancock/
> > otp_src_R11B-1/lib/kernel/ebin/erlang.beam > i686-pc-linux-gnu/preload.c
> > m4  -DTARGET=i686-pc-linux-gnu -DOPSYS=linux -DARCH=x86 hipe/
> > hipe_x86_asm.m4 > i686-pc-linux-gnu/opt/plain/hipe_x86_asm.h
> > /bin/sh: m4: command not found
> > make[2]: *** [i686-pc-linux-gnu/opt/plain/hipe_x86_asm.h] Error 127
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jhancock/otp_src_R11B-1/erts/emulator'
> > make[1]: *** [generate] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jhancock/otp_src_R11B-1/erts/emulator'
> >
> > make: *** [depend] Error 2
> >
> > Any idea what I need to have on ubuntu 6.06.1 server in order to get
> > a good compile??
> >
> > thanks, ke han
> >
> >
> > On Nov 6, 2006, at 8:04 AM, Tobias Löfgren wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Just a heads up for anyone else who uses Ubuntu. Erlang seems to
> > > have trouble loading external libraries/driver on a Ubuntu 6.10
> > > "Egdy Eft" system.
> > >
> > > I've just spent the better part of the weekend trying to figure out
> > > what was going wrong. First it seemed like a problem with Yaws,
> > > because erlang compiled fine and "worked". But yaws stopped with a
> > > "exec 1: setuid_drv.so :not found".
> > >
> > > After much reinstalling and experimenting with different versions I
> > > discovered that it was all dynamic loading of libraries that
> > > failed. For example "crypto:start()." in the erl shell crashed in a
> > > similar fashion.
> > >
> > > Maybe there is a simple solution to the problem, but at the moment
> > > it eludes me, so I've downgraded. The same packages and erlang-
> > > versions work perfectly fine in Ubuntu 6.06, so if you're using
> > > Ubuntu and Erlang, don't upgrade ubuntu yet.
> > >
> > >
> > > /tobias
> > >
> > >
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