[99s-extend] [erlang-questions] [ANN] erlang.mk build tool

Fri Aug 16 16:44:58 CEST 2013

Starting Erlang takes too long. That's a big reason why erlang.mk was 
+created. :)
+
+I recall NetBSD being able to download things with a shell script only 
+(as it comes with nothing installed), this would be a more interesting 
+solution especially since we can bundle it in the erlang.mk file too.
+
+On 08/16/2013 04:42 PM, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
+> Why not use Erlang for downloading? Surely if erlang.mk is a tool for
+> Erlang then it will be very likely installed. For example this target
+> downloads Rebar:
+>
+> # Erlang Rebar downloading, see:
+> #
+> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/erlang-programming/U0JJ3SeUv5Y
+> rb_rebar_url=http://cloud.github.com/downloads/basho/rebar/rebar
+> ./rebar:
+> $(ERL) -noshell -s inets -s ssl \
+> -eval 'httpc:request(get, {"$(rb_rebar_url)", []}, [], [{stream,
+> "./rebar"}])' \
+> -s init stop
+> chmod +x ./rebar
+> REBAR=$(shell (type rebar 2>/dev/null || echo ./rebar) | tail -1 | awk
+> '{ print $$NF }')
+>
+>
+> It could be used to download anything, not just REBAR.
+>
+> - Greg
+>
+>
+> On 16/08/2013 15:34, Loïc Hoguin wrote:
+>> On 08/16/2013 10:39 AM, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
+>>> The big problem with erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> is requiring to have
+>>> gmake and more importantly wget installed imo.
+>>
+>> wget is only used for fetching the package index file. I'm sure if it
+>> doesn't work somewhere it'll be patched eventually.
+>>
+>>> Which makes it quite annoying to distribute on systems that have none of
+>>> them. It would be interrestin to have the support for curl for example.
+>>> Also what are the makefile extensions that you really need to require
+>>> gmake?
+>>
+>> No idea. Patches are welcome for compatibility with different OS/build
+>> tools (as long as it's not "rewrite the whole file" of course, then
+>> you're better off just using gmake).
+>>
+>>> - benoit
+>>>
+>>>
+>>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Loïc Hoguin <essen at ninenines.eu
+>>> <mailto:essen at ninenines.eu>> wrote:
+>>>
+>>>     Hello friendly people,
+>>>
+>>>     I would like to make an official announcement of erlang.mk
+>>> <http://erlang.mk> now that all the features I wanted are in.
+>>>
+>>>     erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> is a rebar replacement. It was
+>>>     initially created for allowing a faster development process than
+>>>     rebar and for better compatibility with Linux build tools. It should
+>>>     work on Linux and OSX with GNU Make installed.
+>>>
+>>>     Projects using erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> are still compatible
+>>>     with rebar. Dependencies fetched by rebar are stored in the same
+>>>     deps/ directory, and projects using erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> can
+>>>     still be used as rebar dependencies, with or without a rebar.config
+>>>     file.
+>>>
+>>>     erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> also features a simple package index.
+>>>     Try `make pkg-list` to list all packages currently available. All
+>>>     the packages listed are compatible with erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk>
+>>>     with no tweaking required.
+>>>
+>>>     Makefiles written with erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> are *VERY*
+>>>     simple, here are two examples:
+>>>
+>>>       * https://github.com/extend/__farwest/blob/master/Makefile
+>>> <https://github.com/extend/farwest/blob/master/Makefile>
+>>>       * https://github.com/extend/__cowboy/blob/master/Makefile
+>>> <https://github.com/extend/cowboy/blob/master/Makefile>
+>>>
+>>>     I wrote about erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> and relx recently on the
+>>>     Nine Nines blog. erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> is the perfect
+>>>     companion to relx.
+>>>
+>>>       * http://ninenines.eu/articles/__erlang.mk-and-relx
+>>> <http://ninenines.eu/articles/erlang.mk-and-relx>
+>>>
+>>>     Here are examples of projects that are using and compatible with
+>>>     erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk>:
+>>>
+>>>       * https://github.com/jlouis/__etorrent
+>>> <https://github.com/jlouis/etorrent>
+>>>       * https://github.com/extend/__cowboy
+>>> <https://github.com/extend/cowboy>
+>>>       * https://github.com/extend/__farwest
+>>> <https://github.com/extend/farwest>
+>>>
+>>>     You can find erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> at the following URL:
+>>>
+>>>       * https://github.com/extend/__erlang.mk
+>>> <https://github.com/extend/erlang.mk>
+>>>
+>>>     Contributions to the package index are of course welcome! The only
+>>>     requirement is that the package is to be compatible with erlang.mk
+>>> <http://erlang.mk> itself. Just send a PR to the erlang.mk
+>>> <http://erlang.mk> project updating the packages.v1.txt!
+>>>
+>>>     Enjoy!
+>>>
+>>>     --
+>>>     Loïc Hoguin
+>>>     Erlang Cowboy
+>>>     Nine Nines
+>>> http://ninenines.eu
+>>>     _________________________________________________
+>>>     erlang-questions mailing list
+>>> erlang-questions at erlang.org <mailto:erlang-questions at erlang.org>
+>>> http://erlang.org/mailman/__listinfo/erlang-questions
+>>> <http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions>
+>>>
+>>>
+>>
+>>
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+-- 
+Loïc Hoguin
+Erlang Cowboy
+Nine Nines
+http://ninenines.eu
+
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