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diff --git a/HOWTO/INSTALL.md b/HOWTO/INSTALL.md index 36365799e3..f62429a3ff 100644 --- a/HOWTO/INSTALL.md +++ b/HOWTO/INSTALL.md @@ -18,9 +18,6 @@ Required Utilities These are the tools you need in order to unpack and build Erlang/OTP. -> *WARNING*: Please have a look at the [Known platform issues][] chapter -> before you start. - ### Unpacking ### * GNU unzip, or a modern uncompress. @@ -343,12 +340,6 @@ 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 @@ -426,11 +417,6 @@ 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. @@ -575,16 +561,12 @@ 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 `$ERL_TOP/erts/emulator`. - -In this directory execute: +directory to `$ERL_TOP/erts/emulator` and execute: - $ make debug FLAVOR=$FLAVOR + $ (cd $ERL_TOP/erts/emulator && make debug) -where `$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: @@ -598,7 +580,7 @@ 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 @@ -794,7 +776,6 @@ Use `hipe:help_options/0` to print out the available options. [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 [System Principles]: ../system_principles/system_principles - [Known platform issues]: #Known-platform-issues [native build]: #How-to-Build-and-Install-ErlangOTP [cross build]: INSTALL-CROSS.md [Required Utilities]: #Required-Utilities |