[erlang-questions] clueless newbie can't compile

[John Chandler]

Installing the Developer version fixes the problem.  I still haven't  
tried
a cean:install, though.

On Jun 17, 2008, at 12:59 AM, John Chandler wrote:

> I thank all who responded.  I reinstalled CEAN, and got this:
> ====
> Eshell V5.5.5  (abort with ^G)
> 1> cean:install(compile).
> compile was not installed. failed to find dependencies: no_pub_file
> ok
> 2>
> ====
>
> Which is better than what I had been getting before.  I see that I  
> installed
> the Production version, so I guess I'll scorch the earth here again  
> and re-do
> w/the Developer version.  Is that "no_pub_file" message interpretable?
>
> I notice that the full release is in cean_base.tar.gz, (~3MB) whereas
> the "cean library" is downloadable from the FAQ page in the file,
> cean.tar.gz (113KB).  This smaller file appears to contain different
> versions of each of the cean files, and some that do not appear in
> cean_base.tar.gz.  Does anyone know if it is advisable to extract
> the smaller file over the tree extracted from the larger file?  I  
> would
> default to "no," unless things still don't work.
>
> -jmc
>
> On Jun 16, 2008, at 11:13 AM, Kevin A. Smith wrote:
>
>> I think CEAN also has (had?) a developer version of the install which
>> had things like the compiler installed by default.
>>
>> --Kevin
>> On Jun 16, 2008, at 2:04 AM, Bengt Kleberg wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> CEAN does not include all of Erlang/OTP in the initial install. The
>>> compiler is not present.
>>> You should be able to do:
>>>
>>> cean:install(compile).
>>>
>>>
>>> bengt
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 03:23 +0200, Robert Virding wrote:
>>>> 2008/6/16 John Chandler <morph@REDACTED>:
>>>>        I can't interpret the error message, either.
>>>>
>>>>        And then, within erl, to type "c(tut).".  Which also seems
>>>>        fine.  What
>>>>        happens is:
>>>>
>>>>        ====
>>>>        1> c(tut).
>>>>        ** exited:
>>>>        {undef,[{compile,file,[tut, 
>>>> [report_errors,report_warnings]]},
>>>>                           {c,c,2},
>>>>                           {erl_eval,do_apply,5},
>>>>                           {shell,exprs,6},
>>>>                           {shell,eval_loop,3}]} **
>>>>
>>>>        =ERROR REPORT==== 15-Jun-2008::20:07:51 ===
>>>>        Error in process <0.29.0> with exit value:
>>>>        {undef,[{compile,file,[tut,
>>>>        [report_errors,report_warnings]]},{c,c,2}, 
>>>> {erl_eval,do_apply,
>>>> 5},
>>>>        {shell,exprs,6},{shell,eval_loop,3}]}
>>>>
>>>> Not being familiar with CEAN I don't really know why, but the error
>>>> report indicates that the function compile:file/2 is undefined, the
>>>> 'undef ' error. In this case this is caused by Erlang not being  
>>>> able
>>>> to find the compile module as we know the file/2 function exists in
>>>> the module.
>>>>
>>>> As I said I am not familiar with CEAN so I can't help you with  
>>>> *why*
>>>> Erlang can't find the module.
>>>>
>>>> Robert
>>>>
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