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authorRickard Green <[email protected]>2014-02-16 00:54:08 +0100
committerRickard Green <[email protected]>2014-02-19 15:30:44 +0100
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Misc adjustments of OTP version
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-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erlang.xml19
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/Makefile b/erts/doc/src/Makefile
index d4c6fe67d2..e8b856c3ff 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/Makefile
+++ b/erts/doc/src/Makefile
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ man: $(MAN1_FILES) $(MAN3_FILES)
gifs: $(GIF_FILES:%=$(HTMLDIR)/%)
-$(INFO_FILE): $(INFO_FILE_SRC) ../../vsn.mk
+$(INFO_FILE): $(INFO_FILE_SRC) $(ERL_TOP)/make/$(TARGET)/otp.mk
sed -e 's;%RELEASE%;$(SYSTEM_VSN);' $(INFO_FILE_SRC) > $(INFO_FILE)
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index 4cf5631727..0f312fb430 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -6094,16 +6094,19 @@ ok
<seealso marker="#system_info_multi_scheduling">erlang:system_info(multi_scheduling)</seealso>, and
<seealso marker="#system_info_schedulers">erlang:system_info(schedulers)</seealso>.</p>
</item>
- <tag><marker id="system_info_otp_correction_package"><c>otp_correction_package</c></marker></tag>
- <item>
- <p>Returns a string containing the OTP correction package version
- number that currenly executing VM is part of. Note that other
- OTP applications in the system may be part of other OTP correction
- packages.</p>
- </item>
<tag><marker id="system_info_otp_release"><c>otp_release</c></marker></tag>
<item>
- <p>Returns a string containing the OTP release number.</p>
+ <p>Returns a string containing the OTP release number of the
+ OTP release that the currently executing ERTS application is
+ part of.</p>
+ <p>As of OTP release 17, the OTP release number corresponds to
+ the major OTP version number. There is no
+ <c>erlang:system_info()</c> argument giving the exact OTP
+ version. This since the exact OTP version in the general case
+ is hard to determine. For more information see
+ <seealso marker="doc/installation_guide:otp_version">the
+ documentation of the OTP version in the installation
+ guide</seealso>.</p>
</item>
<tag><marker id="system_info_port_parallelism"><c>port_parallelism</c></marker></tag>
<item><p>Returns the default port parallelism scheduling hint used.