[erlang-questions] reltool not copying erl_interface

[Håkan Mattsson]

There are several possible solutions to this:

- Add ebin-directories to erl_interface and jinterface in order to make
  reltool think that these "non-Erlang" applications also are Erlang
  applications. Do also add an .app file in order to avoid reltool warnings.

- Change reltool_server:app_dirs2/3 so directories that are lacking the
  ebin sub directory also will be regarded as applications. The reltool
  warning for missing .app-files should be suppressed if the ebin-directory
  is missing.

- Add an extra OverrideSpec argument to reltool:eval_target_spec/3 and
  reltool:create_target/2. The new argument should be a target_spec()
  that overrides parts of the ordinary TargetSpec. Such an OverrideSpec
  argument could then be used to copy extra files that reltool normally
  would not include in the generated target.

Any takers for a contribution?

/Håkan

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Jesse Gumm <sigmastar@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> This is a followup to a post I made a few months ago[1], which was
> probably too and meandering for anyone to read (I struggle with
> brevity).
>
> The short version is that for the life of me, I cannot find a way to
> force the erl_interface dir to get copied with reltool.
>
> There are reltool options for forcing an app to get copied, but
> erl_interface isn't an app (ie, doesn't have a .app file).
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Jesse
>
> [1] http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-October/061923.html
>
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