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2016-11-01Add otp_build update_primary to HOWTO INSTALLMichael Truog
Document the existence of the otp_build update_primary command, to verify that the bootstrap beam files match the source files.
2016-10-04Fix build environment script in HOWTO INSTALL-WIN32Ildar Khizbulin
2016-08-29Fix purge of codeRickard Green
Ensure that we cannot get any dangling pointers into code that has been purged. This is done by a two phase purge. At first phase all fun entries pointing into the code to purge are marked for purge. All processes trying to call these funs will be suspended and by this we avoid getting new direct references into the code. When all processes has been checked, these processes are resumed. The new purge strategy now also completely ignore the existence of indirect references to the code (funs). If such exist, they will cause bad fun exceptions to the caller, but will not prevent a soft purge or cause a kill of a process having such live references during a hard purge. This since it is impossible to give any guarantees that no processes in the system have such indirect references. Even when the system is completely clean from such references, new ones can appear via distribution and/or disk.
2016-05-25Adjust generated XML so it respects current DTDRickard Green
2016-04-07Merge branch 'RicoAntonioFelix/patch-1/PR-1003'Henrik Nord
* RicoAntonioFelix/patch-1/PR-1003: Update INSTALL.md
2016-04-05Update INSTALL.mdRico Antonio Felix
* Fixed a grammatical error.
2016-03-17configure: Remove obsolete --enable-darwin-* optionsBjörn Gustavsson
Remove the options: --enable-darwin-universal --enable-darwin-64bit The --enable-darwin-universal option turns on universal binaries (Intel/PPC). It does not work on modern releases of OS X, and OTP 19 will most not likely build on an OS X release that still supports universal builds. The --enable-darwin-64bit option is not needed, because 64-bit builds are default on modern OS X releases. There is also the generic --enable-m64-build option.
2016-03-08Merge branch 'maint'Henrik Nord
2016-03-08Merge branch 'henrik/doc-fixes' into maintHenrik Nord
* henrik/doc-fixes: Fix typo in INSTALL.md Update README.md Fix typo in 'app' documentation s/is/are
2016-02-24Merge branch 'maint'Hans Bolinder
* maint: Update preloaded module typos Conflicts: erts/preloaded/ebin/prim_file.beam
2016-02-23typosSverker Eriksson
2016-02-23Fix typo in INSTALL.mdPrayag Verma
Found a spelling mistake - `achived` > `achieved`
2016-02-18Merge branch 'maint'Sverker Eriksson
2016-02-18Merge branch 'sverk/openssl-config-doc' into maintSverker Eriksson
* sverk/openssl-config-doc: Add --with-ssl-incl and --with-ssl-rpath to docs
2016-02-18Add --with-ssl-incl and --with-ssl-rpath to docsSverker Eriksson
2015-12-28Merge branch 'maint'Zandra
2015-12-18update java version in documentationZandra
2015-12-14Merge branch 'maint'Zandra
2015-12-14update the howto build and install on windows documentationZandra
OTP-13188 ticket for: 192c4a80c7d6fe9949aecb864901c4a3d9549f36
2015-10-27Merge branch 'maint'Henrik Nord
2015-10-27Merge branch 'derek121/docs_fop_details' into maintHenrik Nord
* derek121/docs_fop_details: Add details on the FOP formatter
2015-10-15Merge branch 'maint'Zandra
2015-10-15Merge branch 'appeltel/docfix_osx_install_wx_branch' into maintZandra
* appeltel/docfix_osx_install_wx_branch: Fix osx install wxWidgets instructions
2015-10-14Add details on the FOP formatterDerek Brown
I found that I needed to take the two steps I added to INSTALL.md for this PR, or else fop execution when doing a "make docs" would fail with either a Java ClassNotFoundException or command "fop" not found: * Adding the FOP install directory to $FOP_HOME * Adding the fop script to $PATH
2015-09-09Merge branch 'maint'Rickard Green
* maint: Add configure switch --disable-saved-compile-time Fix ethread events with timeout Improve choice of clock sources at build time
2015-09-09Merge branch 'rickard/disable-saved-compile-time/OTP-12971' into maintRickard Green
* rickard/disable-saved-compile-time/OTP-12971: Add configure switch --disable-saved-compile-time Conflicts: HOWTO/INSTALL.md
2015-09-09Add configure switch --disable-saved-compile-timeRickard Green
2015-08-21Improve choice of clock sources at build timeRickard Green
- Documented the configure switch --with-clock-resolution=<RES> - Changed default clock source for OS system time on Darwin to gettimeofday(). In order to use clock_get_time(CALENDER_CLOCK, ...) on Darwin, the user has to pass --with-clock-resolution=high when configuring the build.
2015-08-02Fix osx install wxWidgets instructionsEric Appelt
wxWidgets does not have a branch named `WX_3_0_branch`, but has `WX_3_0_BRANCH` Trying to clone with `--branch` set to the lowercase name fails. Fix branch name to `WX_3_0_BRANCH`.
2015-07-14Merge branch 'lukas/ose/remove/OTP-12573'Lukas Larsson
* lukas/ose/remove/OTP-12573: Remove OSE from erl_interface ose: Remove all code related to the OSE port
2015-07-10ose: Remove all code related to the OSE portLukas Larsson
The OSE port is no longer supported and this commit removed it and any changes related to it. The things that were general improvements have been left in the code.
2015-07-08Prefer monotonic time that stop during suspendRickard Green
2015-07-07Add the --enable-gettimeofday-as-os-system-time configure switchRickard Green
Forces usage of gettimeofday() for OS system time
2015-06-18Change license text to APLv2Bruce Yinhe
2015-03-27Merge branch 'dgud/wx/prefer-wxMSW-3/OTP-12632'Dan Gudmundsson
* dgud/wx/prefer-wxMSW-3/OTP-12632: wx: Fix variable cursor constants wx: On Mac keyboards use meta field as raw_ctrl wx: Prefer wxWidgets-3.0. branch on windows
2015-03-27wx: Prefer wxWidgets-3.0. branch on windowsDan Gudmundsson
Since no bug fixes are done anymore on the 2.8 branch it is time to switch the preferred version to 3.0 branch.
2015-03-20Merge branch 'rickard/gcc-atomics/OTP-12383'Rickard Green
* rickard/gcc-atomics/OTP-12383: Improve ethread atomics based on GCC builtins Conflicts: erts/aclocal.m4
2015-03-17Minor fixesRickard Green
2015-03-17Add support for patching of individual applicationsRickard Green
2015-01-14Improve ethread atomics based on GCC builtinsRickard Green
* Use of __atomic builtins when available. * Improved configure test that checks for missing memory barrier in __sync_synchronize(). The old approach was to verify known working gcc versions and check gcc version at compile time. Besides not being very safe, the old approach often unnecessarily caused usage of the very expensive workaround. * Introduced (no overhead) workaround for missing clobber in __sync_synchronize() when using buggy LLVM implementation of __sync_synchronize(). * Implement native memory barriers for ARM processors supporting the DMB instruction. * Use of volatile store on Alpha as atomic set operation if no __atomic_store_n() is available (already used on x86/x86_64 Sparc V9, PowerPC, and MIPS). Fallback used when not using volatile store is typically very expensive. * Use volatile load on Alpha and ARM as atomic read operation if no __atomic_load_n() is available (already used on x86/x86_64 Sparc V9, PowerPC, and MIPS). Fallback when not using volatile load is typically very expensive.
2014-11-26Improve documentation about atomic operationsRickard Green
2014-08-04Fix some spelling misstakesLukas Larsson
2014-06-17doc: Fix broken links in Installation GuideBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2014-04-03Update instructions for cloning the wxWidgets repositoryBjörn Gustavsson
The master branch has incompatible changes by default. The safest course for now is to use the WX_3_0_branch.
2014-04-03Update/remove references to --enable-shared-zlibBjörn Gustavsson
In 9f57d8c4f86323cf7481c9a7e512486087bb5542, the configure option --enable-shared-zlib. It was replaced with --enable-builtin-zlib.
2014-04-02Correct and clean up documentationMagnus Lidén
The build and install documentation was not complete and needed some restructuring.
2014-03-27Merge branch 'lukas/ose/master-17.0/OTP-11334'Lukas Larsson
* lukas/ose/master-17.0/OTP-11334: ose: Fix erts assert failed printouts ose: fix for packet_bytes in fd/spawn driver. ose: Prepare slave for running on OSE ose: Fix bug when hunting for signal proxy ose: Implement tcp inet driver for OSE ose: Add ifdefs for HAVE_UDP ose: Yielding has to be done differently for background processes. ose: Print faults in aio sys driver calls ose: Prinout errno when to_erl read fails ose: erlang display goes to ramlog printf ose: Initiate stdin/stdout/stderr ose: Break lmconf into one per load module ose: Reset busy port when pdq empty ose: Restore the owner of the signal
2014-03-26ose: Break lmconf into one per load moduleLukas Larsson
2014-03-21Raspberry PI / Android a minimal cross-compile configurationDmitry Kolesnikov
Enable a cross compile Erlang/OTP platform to Android or Raspberry PI using Android NDK. Port emulator and core application to support target HW platform. Exclude any add-on services required for OTP platform deployment into target hardware due to device fragmentation and jail-break requirements. * fix erts/emulator/beam/sys.h Disable redefinition of __noreturn macro * port erts/emulator/sys/unix/erl_child_setup.c Use techniques proposed by https://code.google.com/p/erlang4android to access system properties * fix erts/emulator/sys/unix/erl_unix_sys_ddll.c The static linking of emulator cannot find dlerror(), dlopen() symbols * port erts/emulator/sys/unix/sys.c make path to shell configurable at build time * port erts/etc/common/Makefile.in disable librt for *-linux-androideabi * port erts/lib_src/pthread/ethread.c Use techniques proposed by https://code.google.com/p/erlang4android to disable emulator crash if kernel threads are on. Replace unreliable pthread_sigmask() by sigprocmask() * port lib/erl_interface/src/connect/ei_connect.c Disable call to undefined gethostid() * port lib/erl_interface/src/connect/ei_resolve.c Use gethostbyname_r() on Android platform
2014-03-12Update compile instructions when compiling from gitSage Imel
Updating to reflect the instructions found on the mailing list. http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2012-April/066184.html