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| -rw-r--r-- | HOWTO/INSTALL-CROSS.md | 21 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | HOWTO/INSTALL-WIN32.md | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | HOWTO/INSTALL.md | 142 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 183 deletions
diff --git a/HOWTO/INSTALL-CROSS.md b/HOWTO/INSTALL-CROSS.md index 29614966b8..3796bf8a59 100644 --- a/HOWTO/INSTALL-CROSS.md +++ b/HOWTO/INSTALL-CROSS.md @@ -521,27 +521,6 @@ When a variable has been set, no warning will be issued. `posix_memalign` implementation that accepts larger than page size alignment. -Copyright and License ---------------------- - -%CopyrightBegin% - -Copyright Ericsson AB 2009-2014. 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% - [$ERL_TOP/HOWTO/INSTALL.md]: INSTALL.md diff --git a/HOWTO/INSTALL-WIN32.md b/HOWTO/INSTALL-WIN32.md index c74107d749..98c608060d 100644 --- a/HOWTO/INSTALL-WIN32.md +++ b/HOWTO/INSTALL-WIN32.md @@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ tools: We would recommend using 1.0.2d. -* Building with wxWidgets. Download wxWidgets-3.0.2 or higher. +* Building with wxWidgets. Download wxWidgets-3.0.3 or higher. Install or unpack it to the pgm folder: Cygwin: @@ -622,19 +622,19 @@ tools: MSYS2: `DRIVE:/PATH/msys<32/64>/opt/local/pgm` - If the `wxUSE_POSTSCRIPT` isn't enabled in `<path\to\pgm>\wxMSW-3.0.2\include\wx\msw\setup.h`, + If the `wxUSE_POSTSCRIPT` isn't enabled in `<path\to\pgm>\wxMSW-3.0.3\include\wx\msw\setup.h`, enable it. build: From a command prompt with the VC tools available (See the instructions for OpenSSL build above for help on starting the proper command prompt in RELEASE mode): - C:\...\> cd <path\to\pgm>\wxMSW-3.0.2\build\msw + C:\...\> cd <path\to\pgm>\wxMSW-3.0.3\build\msw C:\...\> nmake BUILD=release SHARED=0 DIR_SUFFIX_CPU= -f makefile.vc Or - if building a 64bit version: - C:\...\> cd <path\to\pgm>\wxMSW-3.0.2\build\msw + C:\...\> cd <path\to\pgm>\wxMSW-3.0.3\build\msw C:\...\> nmake TARGET_CPU=amd64 BUILD=release SHARED=0 DIR_SUFFIX_CPU= -f makefile.vc * Get the Erlang source distribution (from <http://www.erlang.org/download.html>). @@ -884,28 +884,6 @@ to a common MSYS command prompt for building. Also all test suites cannot be built as MsysGIT/MSYS does not handle symbolic links. -Copyright and License ---------------------- - -%CopyrightBegin% - -Copyright Ericsson AB 2003-2015. 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% - - [1]: http://www.erlang.org/static/doc/mailinglist.html [2]: http://bugs.erlang.org [3]: https://github.com/erlang/otp diff --git a/HOWTO/INSTALL.md b/HOWTO/INSTALL.md index 447a23128f..36365799e3 100644 --- a/HOWTO/INSTALL.md +++ b/HOWTO/INSTALL.md @@ -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 @@ -429,10 +431,6 @@ 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. @@ -782,134 +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% - - |