where and what to install

[Vance Shipley]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 06:54:19PM +0200, Fredrik Thulin wrote:
}  
}  Is there some kind of spoken or unspoken guidelines as to where to 
}  install files for your OTP application? I'm working on Yxa (a SIP 
}  server/stack) and we have just simplified installation by making the 
}  installation procedure generic (./configure && make && make install) 
}  using autoconf.
  
The Embedded Systems User's Guide recommends that a dedicated user 
named otpuser be created and that home directory used as the base path
for the installation (i.e. /home/otpuser/lib/erlang).  Here is a pointer
to the Solaris version:

   http://www.erlang.org/doc/r9c/doc/embedded/embedded_solaris.html#1.3

  -Vance