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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ kerl Easy building and installing of Erlang/OTP instances -Kerl aims to be shell agnostic and its only dependency, excluding what's required to actually build Erlang/OTP, is curl. +Kerl aims to be shell agnostic and its only dependencies, excluding what's required to actually build Erlang/OTP, are curl and git. Downloading =========== @@ -48,12 +48,15 @@ You can verify it's been registered: $ ./kerl list builds R14B02 -Now install it to some location: +Now install it to some location, optionally with agner support by adding KERL_INSTALL_AGNER=yes to you $HOME/.kerlrc file: $ ./kerl install R14B02 /path/to/install/dir/ - Installing Erlang/OTP R14B02 in /path/to/install/dir/ + Installing Erlang/OTP R14B02 in /path/to/install/dir... + Installing agner in /path/to/install/dir... You can activate this installation running the following command: . /path/to/install/dir/activate + Later on, you can leave the installation typing: + kerl_deactivate Here again you can check the installation's been registered: @@ -64,11 +67,16 @@ And at last activate it: $ . /path/to/install/dir/activate -You're now ready to work with R14B02 +You're now ready to work with R14B02: $ erl -version Erlang (SMP,ASYNC_THREADS,HIPE) (BEAM) emulator version 5.8.3 + $ agner version + 0.4.15 + +When your done just type: + $ kerl_deactivate Tuning ====== @@ -77,8 +85,9 @@ You can tune kerl using the .kerlrc file in your $HOME directory. You can set the following variables: -- KERL_DOWNLOAD_DIR (where to put downloaded files) -- KERL_BUILD_DIR (where to hold the builds) -- KERL_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS (options to pass to Erlang's ./configure script) -- KERL_MAKE_OPTIONS (options to pass to make, e.g. -j2) +- KERL_DOWNLOAD_DIR where to put downloaded files, defaults to $HOME/.kerl/archives +- KERL_BUILD_DIR where to hold the builds, defaults to $HOME/.kerl/builds +- KERL_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS options to pass to Erlang's ./configure script, e.g. --without-termcap +- KERL_MAKE_OPTIONS options to pass to make, e.g. -j2 +- KERL_INSTALL_AGNER if non-empty will cause agner to be installed along |