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<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 &amp;&amp; make
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/essen/tmp/emkg/hello_joe/.erlang.mk.build'
awk 'FNR==1 &amp;&amp; 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/' &gt; 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>. You can also
tell Erlang.mk to use a different temporary directory by changing
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