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diff --git a/guide/updating.html b/guide/updating.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a207549 --- /dev/null +++ b/guide/updating.html @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> +<head> +<meta charset="utf-8"/> +<title>Erlang.mk User Guide</title> +<style type="text/css"><!-- +body{background:white;color:black;font-family:"Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;justify-content:center;margin:0 auto;padding:0;width:600px} +header {align-items:center;display:flex;justify-content:center} +header nav.left{text-align:right;width:150px} +header nav.right{text-align:left;width:150px} +header nav a{display:block;margin:1.5em 1em} +main{margin-top:2em;text-align:justify} +main h2, main h3{margin-top:2em} +a{color:#d9230f;text-decoration:none} +a:hover{text-decoration:underline} +h1, h2, h3{font-weight:normal} +div.navfooter{margin-bottom:1em} +--></style> +</head> +<body> +<header> + <nav class="left"> + <a href="index.html">User guide</a> + <a href="ch02.html">Tutorials</a> + </nav> + <a href="/" class="logo"><img src="../res/logo-small.png" alt="Erlang.mk" title="Erlang.mk: A build tool for Erlang that just works" height="200" width="206"/></a> + <nav class="right"> + <a href="https://github.com/ninenines/erlang.mk/tree/master/index">470+ packages</a> + <a href="https://github.com/ninenines/erlang.mk/issues">Issues?</a> + </nav> +</header> +<main> + +<div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="overview.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="limitations.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="updating"></a>Chapter 4. Updating Erlang.mk</h1></div></div></div><p>This chapter describes how to update the <span class="emphasis"><em>erlang.mk</em></span> file +in your repository.</p><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_initial_bootstrap"></a>4.1. Initial bootstrap</h2></div></div></div><p>The first time you use Erlang.mk, it will bootstrap itself. +It always uses the most recent version for this, so you don’t +have to update after creating your project.</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_updating"></a>4.2. Updating</h2></div></div></div><p>Later on though, updating becomes a necessity. Erlang.mk +developers and contributors relentlessly improve the project +and add new features; it would be a waste not to benefit +from this.</p><p>That’s why updating Erlang.mk is so simple. All you need +to do is to call <code class="literal">make erlang-mk</code>:</p><pre class="programlisting">$ make erlang-mk +git clone https://github.com/ninenines/erlang.mk .erlang.mk.build +Cloning into '.erlang.mk.build'... +remote: Counting objects: 4035, done. +remote: Compressing objects: 100% (12/12), done. +remote: Total 4035 (delta 8), reused 4 (delta 4), pack-reused 4019 +Receiving objects: 100% (4035/4035), 1.10 MiB | 1000.00 KiB/s, done. +Resolving deltas: 100% (2442/2442), done. +Checking connectivity... done. +if [ -f build.config ]; then cp build.config .erlang.mk.build; fi +cd .erlang.mk.build && make +make[1]: Entering directory '/home/essen/tmp/emkg/hello_joe/.erlang.mk.build' +awk 'FNR==1 && NR!=1{print ""}1' core/core.mk index/*.mk core/index.mk core/deps.mk plugins/protobuffs.mk core/erlc.mk core/docs.mk core/test.mk plugins/asciidoc.mk plugins/bootstrap.mk plugins/c_src.mk plugins/ci.mk plugins/ct.mk plugins/dialyzer.mk plugins/edoc.mk plugins/elvis.mk plugins/erlydtl.mk plugins/escript.mk plugins/eunit.mk plugins/relx.mk plugins/shell.mk plugins/triq.mk plugins/xref.mk plugins/cover.mk \ + | sed 's/^ERLANG_MK_VERSION = .*/ERLANG_MK_VERSION = 1.2.0-642-gccd2b9f/' > erlang.mk +make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/essen/tmp/emkg/hello_joe/.erlang.mk.build' +cp .erlang.mk.build/erlang.mk ./erlang.mk +rm -rf .erlang.mk.build</pre><p>All that’s left to do is to commit the file!</p><p>Yep, it’s that easy.</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_customizing_the_build"></a>4.3. Customizing the build</h2></div></div></div><p>Erlang.mk allows you to customize which plugins are to be included +in the <span class="emphasis"><em>erlang.mk</em></span> file. You can do so by maintaining your own +<span class="emphasis"><em>build.config</em></span> file in your repository. Erlang.mk will automatically +use it the next time you run <code class="literal">make erlang-mk</code>.</p><p>The <span class="emphasis"><em>build.config</em></span> file contains the list of all files that will +be built into the resulting <span class="emphasis"><em>erlang.mk</em></span> file. You can start from +the <a class="ulink" href="https://github.com/ninenines/erlang.mk/blob/master/build.config" target="_top">most recent version</a> +and customize to your needs.</p><p>You can also name the file differently or put it in a separate folder +by modifying the value for <code class="literal">ERLANG_MK_BUILD_CONFIG</code>. 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