Trouble compiling R10B-7 on OS X

[mshure]

Hello,

I've been experimenting with Erlang on and off for the past couple of years under various flavors of Windows, never reaching a high level of expertise. Soon after buying my first Mac (an iMac G5 running OS X v10.4.2), I recently decided to delve more deeply into Erlang. However, I haven't had much success in getting it to run...

On Windows machines I took advantage of the binary downloads, but this is my first attempt at compiling the source code. Perhaps this isn't a good first project with my Mac, but I tried anyway. I installed the Xcode software, downloaded the R10B-7 source code, followed the instructions in the README file and typed "make". The compilation process seemed to go fine until I saw the following:

"=== Leaving application debugger
=== Entering application gs
erl -pa ../ebin -s gs_make -s erlang halt -noshell
{error_logger,{{2005,9,11},{17,11,43}},supervisor_report,[{supervisor,{local,kernel_sup}},{errorContext,start_error},{reason,{'DOWN',#Ref<0.0.0.12>,process,<0.15.0>,normal}},{offender,[{pid,undefined},{name,code_server},{mfa,{code,start_link,[]}},{restart_type,permanent},{shutdown,2000},{child_type,worker}]}]}
{error_logger,{{2005,9,11},{17,11,43}},crash_report,[[{pid,<0.7.0>},{registered_name,[]},{error_info,{shutdown,{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}}},{initial_call,{application_master,init,[<0.5.0>,<0.6.0>,{appl_data,kernel,[application_controller,erl_reply,auth,boot_server,code_server,disk_log_server,disk_log_sup,erl_prim_loader,error_logger,file_server,file_server_2,fixtable_server,global_group,global_name_server,heart,init,kernel_config,kernel_sup,net_kernel,net_sup,rex,user,os_server,ddll_server,erl_epmd,inet_db,pg2],undefined,{kernel,[]},[application,application_controller,application_master,application_starter,auth,code,code_aux,packages,code_server,dist_util,erl_boot_server,erl_distribution,erl_prim_loader,erl_reply,erlang,error_handler,error_logger,file,file_server,old_file_server,file_io_server,prim_file,global,global_group,global_search,group,heart,inet6_tcp,inet6_tcp_dist,inet6_udp,inet_config,inet_hosts,inet_gethost_native,inet_tcp_dist,init,kernel,kernel_config,net,net_adm
 ,net_kernel,os,ram_file,rpc,user,user_drv,user_sup,disk_log,disk_log_1,disk_log_server,disk_log_sup,dist_ac,erl_ddll,erl_epmd,erts_debug,gen_tcp,gen_udp,prim_inet,inet,inet_db,inet_dns,inet_parse,inet_res,inet_tcp,inet_udp,pg2,seq_trace,wrap_log_reader,zlib,otp_ring0],[],infinity,infinity},normal]}},{ancestors,[<0.6.0>]},{messages,[{'EXIT',<0.8.0>,normal}]},{links,[<0.6.0>,<0.5.0>]},{dictionary,[]},{trap_exit,true},{status,running},{heap_size,987},{stack_size,21},{reductions,1062}],[]]}
{error_logger,{{2005,9,11},{17,11,43}},std_info,[{application,kernel},{exited,{shutdown,{kernel,start,[normal,[]]}}},{type,permanent}]}
{"Kernel pid terminated",application_controller,shutdown}

Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
Kernel pid terminated (application_controller) (shutdown)"

Here are the first 20 lines of the resulting erl_crash.dump file:

"=erl_crash_dump:0.1
Sun Sep 11 16:01:58 2005
Slogan: Kernel pid terminated (application_controller) (shutdown)
System version: Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.4.9 [source] [hipe]
Compiled: Mon Sep  5 11:56:13 2005
Atoms: 3351
=memory
total: 1710405
processes: 215258
processes_used: 208218
system: 1495147
atom: 137441
atom_used: 134092
binary: 144096
code: 873939
ets: 28268
=hash_table:atom_tab
size: 2411
used: 1814
objs: 3351
..."

I pored over the Erlang Questions mailing list looking for previous problems with OS X and saw a suggestion to download the latest gcc version from the Apple website. I installed "Xcode Tools 2.2 Developer Preview 1", but this didn't seem to help.

Can anyone suggest a solution to this problem? Thanks in advance for your help.


Regards,

Mark
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