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diff --git a/HOWTO/INSTALL.md b/HOWTO/INSTALL.md index 533960ef99..368947b36c 100644 --- a/HOWTO/INSTALL.md +++ b/HOWTO/INSTALL.md @@ -189,16 +189,16 @@ section below before proceeding. Step 1: Start by unpacking the Erlang/OTP distribution file with your GNU compatible TAR program. - $ gunzip -c otp_src_%OTP-REL%.tar.gz | tar xf - + $ gunzip -c otp_src_%OTP-VSN%.tar.gz | tar xf - alternatively: - $ zcat otp_src_%OTP-REL%.tar.gz | tar xf - + $ zcat otp_src_%OTP-VSN%.tar.gz | tar xf - Step 2: Now cd into the base directory (`$ERL_TOP`). - $ cd otp_src_%OTP-REL% + $ cd otp_src_%OTP-VSN% ### Configuring ### @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ Step 4: Run the following commands to configure the build: $ ./configure [ options ] -If you are building it from git you will need to run `autoconf` to generate configure file. +If you are building it from git you will need to run `./otp_build autoconf` to generate configure file. By default, Erlang/OTP will be installed in `/usr/local/{bin,lib/erlang}`. To instead install in `<BaseDir>/{bin,lib/erlang}`, use the `--prefix=<BaseDir>` option. @@ -268,12 +268,22 @@ Some of the available `configure` options are: default if possible) * `--{enable,disable}-hipe` - HiPE support (enabled by default on supported platforms) +* `--{enable,disable}-fp-exceptions` - Floating point exceptions (an + optimization for floating point operations). The default differs + depending on operating system and hardware platform. Note that by + enabling this you might get a seemingly working system that sometimes + fail on floating point operations. * `--enable-darwin-universal` - Build universal binaries on darwin i386. * `--enable-darwin-64bit` - Build 64-bit binaries on darwin * `--enable-m64-build` - Build 64-bit binaries using the `-m64` flag to `(g)cc` * `--enable-m32-build` - Build 32-bit binaries using the `-m32` flag to `(g)cc` +* `--with-assumed-cache-line-size=SIZE` - Set assumed cache-line size in + bytes. Default is 64. Valid values are powers of two between and + including 16 and 8192. The runtime system use this value in order to + try to avoid false sharing. A too large value wastes memory. A to + small value will increase the amount of false sharing. * `--{with,without}-termcap` - termcap (without implies that only the old Erlang shell can be used) * `--with-javac=JAVAC` - Specify Java compiler to use @@ -288,7 +298,7 @@ Some of the available `configure` options are: memory accesses. If `configure` should inform you about no native atomic implementation available, you typically want to try using the `libatomic_ops` library. It can be downloaded from - <http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/atomic_ops/>. + <https://github.com/ivmai/libatomic_ops/>. * `--disable-smp-require-native-atomics` - By default `configure` will fail if an SMP runtime system is about to be built, and no implementation for native atomic memory accesses can be found. If this happens, you are @@ -500,21 +510,11 @@ The Erlang/OTP Documentation ### How to Build the Documentation ### - $ cd $ERL_TOP - -If you have just built Erlang/OTP in the current source tree, you have -already ran `configure` and do not need to do this again; otherwise, run -`configure`. - - $ ./configure [Configure Args] - -When building the documentation you need a full Erlang/OTP-%OTP-REL% system in -the `$PATH`. - - $ export PATH=<Erlang/OTP-%OTP-REL% bin dir>:$PATH # Assuming bash/sh - -Build the documentation. +Before you can build the documentation you need to either [native build][] +or [cross build][] the Erlang/OTP system. After this you can build the +documentation as follows. + $ cd $ERL_TOP $ make docs The documentation can be installed either using the `install-docs` target, @@ -553,13 +553,13 @@ For some graphical tools to find the on-line help you have to install the HTML documentation on top of the installed OTP applications, i.e. $ cd <ReleaseDir> - $ gunzip -c otp_html_%OTP-REL%.tar.gz | tar xf - + $ gunzip -c otp_html_%OTP-VSN%.tar.gz | tar xf - For `erl -man <page>` to work the Unix manual pages have to be installed in the same way, i.e. $ cd <ReleaseDir> - $ gunzip -c otp_man_%OTP-REL%.tar.gz | tar xf - + $ gunzip -c otp_man_%OTP-VSN%.tar.gz | tar xf - Where `<ReleaseDir>` is @@ -803,9 +803,11 @@ Before modifying this document you need to have a look at the [Building in Git]: #How-to-Build-and-Install-ErlangOTP_Building-in-Git [Pre-built Source Release]: #How-to-Build-and-Install-ErlangOTP_Prebuilt-Source-Release [make and $ERL_TOP]: #How-to-Build-and-Install-ErlangOTP_make-and-ERLTOP - [html documentation]: http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_html_%OTP-REL%.tar.gz - [man pages]: http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_%OTP-REL%.tar.gz - [the released source tar ball]: http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_%OTP-REL%.tar.gz + [html documentation]: http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_html_%OTP-VSN%.tar.gz + [man pages]: http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_%OTP-VSN%.tar.gz + [the released source tar ball]: http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_%OTP-VSN%.tar.gz + [native build]: #How-to-Build-and-Install-ErlangOTP + [cross build]: INSTALL-CROSS.md [$ERL_TOP/HOWTO/MARKDOWN.md]: MARKDOWN.md [?TOC]: true |