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| author | Mark Allen <[email protected]> | 2017-11-08 08:59:04 -0600 |
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| committer | Mark Allen <[email protected]> | 2017-11-08 08:59:04 -0600 |
| commit | 645db1fed055c6a294326805bd87129943369754 (patch) | |
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@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ installation is as fast as possible. OTP Support Policy ------------------ -As of 2017 May 24, we are supporting OTP back to R14B04. Older builds +As of 2017 November 8, we are supporting OTP builds back to R15. Older builds may or may not work. We will advance release support as new releases of OTP -become available. For example, when OTP 20 is released, we will support Erlang -builds R15 and newer. +become available. For example, when OTP 21 is released, we will support Erlang +builds R16 and newer. Triage cadence -------------- @@ -618,6 +618,8 @@ other tools to extract to path information. kerl install-docsh +**Important note**: docsh currently only supports OTP 18 and 19. + Install `erl` shell documentation access extension - [docsh](https://github.com/erszcz/docsh). This extends the shell with new helpers, which enable access to full @@ -649,7 +651,7 @@ Compiling crypto on Macs ------------------------ Apple stopped shipping OpenSSL in OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) in favor of Apple's own SSL library. That makes using homebrew the most convenient way to install -openssl on macOS 10.11 or later. Additionally, homebrew [stop creating](https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/612) +openssl on macOS 10.11 or later. Additionally, homebrew [stopped creating](https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/612) symlinks from the homebrew installation directory to `/usr/local`, so in response to this, *if* you're running El Capitan, Sierra, or High Sierra *and* you have homebrew installed, *and* you used it to install openssl, @@ -659,6 +661,24 @@ to build with that location automatically. **Important**: If you already have `--with-ssl` in your .kerlrc, kerl will honor that instead, and will not do any automatic configuration. +Compiling crypto on Red Hat systems +----------------------------------- +Red Hat believes there's a [patent +issue](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901#c2) and has disabled +elliptic curve crypto algorithms in its distributions for over 10 years. + +This causes Erlang builds to die when its compiling its own crypto libraries. + +As a workaround, you can set `CFLAGS="-DOPENSSL_NO_EC=1"` to tell the +Erlang crypto libraries to not build the elliptic curve cipher suite. + +This issue applies to Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and all +derivatives of those distributions. + +There is a [tracking issue](https://github.com/kerl/kerl/issues/212) to +automatically set this compiler flag, if you wish to follow how kerl +will eventually deal with this issue. + Changelog --------- 8 November 2017 - 1.8.0 |