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diff --git a/HOWTO/INSTALL.md b/HOWTO/INSTALL.md index 43bcdb3a9e..447a23128f 100644 --- a/HOWTO/INSTALL.md +++ b/HOWTO/INSTALL.md @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ also find the utilities needed for building the documentation. Required for building the application `crypto`. Further, `ssl` and `ssh` require a working crypto application and will also be skipped if OpenSSL is missing. The `public_key` - application will available without `crypto`, but the functionality + application is available without `crypto`, but the functionality will be very limited. The development package of OpenSSL including the header files are needed as well @@ -356,8 +356,6 @@ Some of the available `configure` options are: 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 @@ -431,6 +429,10 @@ Some of the available `configure` options are: and **not supported**. This functionality **will** be subject to backward incompatible changes. Note that you should **not** enable the dirty scheduler functionality on production systems. It is only provided for testing. + This switch also imply `--enable-new-purge-strategy` (see below). +* `--enable-new-purge-strategy` - Enable the purge strategy that will be + introduced in ERTS version 9.0 (OTP 20). Note that this switch will be + removed in OTP 20. If you or your system has special requirements please read the `Makefile` for additional configuration information. @@ -566,6 +568,10 @@ as before, but the build process will take a much longer time. > automatically when `make` is invoked from `$ERL_TOP` with either the > `clean` target, or the default target. It is also automatically invoked > if `./otp_build remove_prebuilt_files` is invoked. +> +> If you need to verify the bootstrap beam files match the provided +> source files, use `./otp_build update_primary` to create a new commit that +> contains differences, if any exist. #### How to Build a Debug Enabled Erlang RunTime System #### @@ -826,6 +832,7 @@ Known platform issues Daily Build and Test -------------------- + At Ericsson we have a "Daily Build and Test" that runs on: * Solaris 8, 9 |