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@@ -343,10 +343,12 @@ use the `--prefix` argument like this: `./configure --prefix=<Dir>`.
Some of the available `configure` options are:
* `--prefix=PATH` - Specify installation prefix.
-
-* `--{enable,disable}-threads` - Thread support. This is enabled by default if possible.
-* `--{enable,disable}-smp-support` - SMP support (enabled by default if
- a usable POSIX thread library or native Windows threads is found)
+* `--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
@@ -564,6 +566,10 @@ 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 ####
@@ -774,134 +780,6 @@ Use `hipe:help_options/0` to print out the available options.
1> hipe:help_options().
-#### Running with GS ####
-
-The `gs` application requires the GUI toolkit Tcl/Tk to run. At least
-version 8.4 is required.
-
-Known platform issues
----------------------
-
-* Suse linux 9.1 is shipped with a patched GCC version 3.3.3, having the
- rpm named `gcc-3.3.3-41`. That version has a serious optimization bug
- that makes it unusable for building the Erlang emulator. Please
- upgrade GCC to a newer version before building on Suse 9.1. Suse Linux
- Enterprise edition 9 (SLES9) has `gcc-3.3.3-43` and is not affected.
-
-* `gcc-4.3.0` has a serious optimizer bug. It produces an Erlang emulator
- that will crash immediately. The bug is supposed to be fixed in
- `gcc-4.3.1`.
-
-* FreeBSD had a bug which caused `kqueue`/`poll`/`select` to fail to detect
- that a `writev()` on a pipe has been made. This bug should have been fixed
- in FreeBSD 6.3 and FreeBSD 7.0. NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD probably have or
- have had the same bug. More information can be found at:
-
- * <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/sys_pipe.c>
- * <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2007-September/006790.html>
-
-* `getcwd()` on Solaris 9 can cause an emulator crash. If you have
- async-threads enabled you can increase the stack size of the
- async-threads as a temporary workaround. See the `+a` command-line
- argument in the documentation of `erl(1)`. Without async-threads the
- emulator is not as vulnerable to this bug, but if you hit it without
- async-threads the only workaround available is to enable async-threads
- and increase the stack size of the async-threads. Oracle has however
- released patches that fixes the issue:
-
- > Problem Description: 6448300 large mnttab can cause stack overrun
- > during Solaris 9 getcwd
-
- More information can be found at:
- * <https://getupdates.oracle.com/readme/112874-40>
- * <https://getupdates.oracle.com/readme/114432-29>
-
-* `sed` on Solaris seem to have some problems. For example on
- Solaris 8, the BSD `sed` and XPG4 `sed` should be avoided.
- Make sure `/bin/sed` or `/usr/bin/sed` is used on the Solaris
- platform.
-
-
-Daily Build and Test
---------------------
-
-At Ericsson we have a "Daily Build and Test" that runs on:
-
-* Solaris 8, 9
- * Sparc32
- * Sparc64
-* Solaris 10
- * Sparc32
- * Sparc64
- * x86
-* SuSE Linux/GNU 9.4, 10.1
- * x86
-* SuSE Linux/GNU 10.0, 10.1, 11.0
- * x86
- * x86\_64
-* openSuSE 11.4 (Celadon)
- * x86\_64 (valgrind)
-* Fedora 7
- * PowerPC
-* Fedora 16
- * x86\_64
-* Gentoo Linux/GNU 1.12.11.1
- * x86
-* Ubuntu Linux/GNU 7.04, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 12.04
- * x86\_64
-* MontaVista Linux/GNU 4.0.1
- * PowerPC
-* FreeBSD 10.0
- * x86
-* OpenBSD 5.4
- * x86\_64
-* OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard), 10.7.5 (Lion), 10.9.1 (Mavericks)
- * x86
-* Windows XP SP3, 2003, Vista, 7
- * x86
-* Windows 7
- * x86\_64
-
-We also have the following "Daily Cross Builds":
-
-* SuSE Linux/GNU 10.1 x86 -> SuSE Linux/GNU 10.1 x86\_64
-* SuSE Linux/GNU 10.1 x86\_64 -> Linux/GNU TILEPro64
-
-and the following "Daily Cross Build Tests":
-
-* SuSE Linux/GNU 10.1 x86\_64
-
-
-Authors
--------
-
-Authors are mostly listed in the application's `AUTHORS` files,
-that is `$ERL_TOP/lib/*/AUTHORS` and `$ERL_TOP/erts/AUTHORS`,
-not in the individual source files.
-
-
-Copyright and License
----------------------
-
-%CopyrightBegin%
-
-Copyright Ericsson AB 1998-2015. All Rights Reserved.
-
-Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
- http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-limitations under the License.
-
-%CopyrightEnd%
-
-