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diff --git a/HOWTO/INSTALL.md b/HOWTO/INSTALL.md index 53f2dd26e2..456dafeba5 100644 --- a/HOWTO/INSTALL.md +++ b/HOWTO/INSTALL.md @@ -72,13 +72,11 @@ also find the utilities needed for building the documentation. as the binary command program `openssl`. At least version 0.9.8 of OpenSSL is required. Read more and download from <http://www.openssl.org>. * Oracle Java SE JDK -- The Java Development Kit (Standard Edition). - Required for building the application `jinterface` and parts of `ic` and `orber`. + Required for building the application `jinterface`. At least version 1.6.0 of the JDK is required. Download from <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads>. We have also tested with IBM's JDK 1.6.0. -* X Windows -- Development headers and libraries are needed - to build the Erlang/OTP application `gs` on Unix/Linux. * `flex` -- Headers and libraries are needed to build the flex scanner for the `megaco` application on Unix/Linux. * wxWidgets -- Toolkit for GUI applications. @@ -340,12 +338,6 @@ use the `--prefix` argument like this: `./configure --prefix=<Dir>`. Some of the available `configure` options are: * `--prefix=PATH` - Specify installation prefix. -* `--enable-plain-emulator` - Build a threaded emulator that only - uses one scheduler. This emulator type is deprecated and will be - removed in a future release. -* `--disable-threads` - Build a non-threaded emulator. This emulator type - is deprecated and will be - removed in a future release. * `--{enable,disable}-kernel-poll` - Kernel poll support (enabled by default if possible) * `--{enable,disable}-hipe` - HiPE support (enabled by default on supported @@ -423,11 +415,6 @@ Some of the available `configure` options are: and scalability compared to the default clock sources chosen. * `--disable-saved-compile-time` - Disable saving of compile date and time in the emulator binary. -* `--enable-dirty-schedulers` - Enable the **experimental** dirty schedulers - functionality. Note that the dirty schedulers functionality is experimental, - 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. If you or your system has special requirements please read the `Makefile` for additional configuration information. @@ -586,16 +573,12 @@ as before, but the build process will take a much longer time. After completing all the normal building steps described above a debug enabled runtime system can be built. To do this you have to change -directory to `$ERL_TOP/erts/emulator`. +directory to `$ERL_TOP/erts/emulator` and execute: -In this directory execute: + $ (cd $ERL_TOP/erts/emulator && make debug) - $ make debug FLAVOR=$FLAVOR - -where `$FLAVOR` is either `plain` or `smp`. The flavor options will -produce a beam.debug and beam.smp.debug executable respectively. The -files are installed along side with the normal (opt) versions `beam.smp` -and `beam`. +This will produce a beam.smp.debug executable. The +file are installed along side with the normal (opt) version `beam.smp`. To start the debug enabled runtime system execute: @@ -609,7 +592,7 @@ using appropriate configure options. There are other types of runtime systems that can be built as well using the similar steps just described. - $ make $TYPE FLAVOR=$FLAVOR + $ (cd $ERL_TOP/erts/emulator && make $TYPE) where `$TYPE` is `opt`, `gcov`, `gprof`, `debug`, `valgrind`, or `lcnt`. These different beam types are useful for debugging and profiling |