[erlang-questions] Unable to build hipe enabled VM on trusty.

[Kostis Sagonas]

On 05/03/2014 04:41 AM, Alex Shneyderman wrote:
> I am trying to build with hipe enabled and for some reason it does not
> work for me. The status line shows no hipe. I configure like so:
>
> ./configure --enable-hipe --enable-kernel-poll --enable-m64-build
> do a make
> and
>
> 22:41:02 alex@REDACTED > bin/erl
> Erlang R16B02 (erts-5.10.3) [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8]
> [async-threads:10] [kernel-poll:false]
>
> Any ideas on why this might be?

I think something is not OK in your system.  Under normal circumstances 
(i.e. on a properly set up system), at least on an x86_64/amd64-based 
machine running Ubuntu, HiPE will be enabled by default so you do not 
need the --enable-hipe flag.  (And you would not need to specify 
--enable-m64-build either.)

I recommend getting a fresh tar ball (*) and executing the following 
sequence of commands:

	./otp_build autoconf
	./configure
	make			# add -j too if you want

And tell us what happened.

Kostis

(*) By the way, why did you choose R16B02 instead of a newer system like 
R16B03-1 if not 17.0 ?