AMENDMENT DIRECTIVE, OTP

1/177 82 - APN 181 01I
UAB/F Kenneth Lundin, Lars Thorsén, Morgan Eriksson
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction
1.1 Purpose
1.2 Revision History
2 Product Identities
3 Document Survey
4 Implemented Change requests
5 Implemented Trouble Reports
6 Installation Instructions
6.1 Separate (optional) Installation of XNTP (Network Time Protocol)
7 Some useful notes
8 Known problems in this release
9 References

1 Introduction

1.1 Purpose

This update release, OTP P1H, contains a fix for the erl_call problems in OTP P1G.

1.2 Revision History

Rev.A:Kenneth Lundin 1996-05-31
Rev.B:Lars Thorsén 1996-06-04
Rev.C:Kenneth Lundin 1996-06-14
Rev.D:Kenneth Lundin 1996-08-28
Rev.E:Lars Thorsén 1996-09-12
Rev.F:Kenneth Lundin 1996-09-13
Rev.G:Morgan Ericsson 1996-10-08
Rev.H:Kenneth Lundin 1996-10-14
Rev.I:Morgan Eriksson 1996-10-23

The exact changes between revisions of this document can be generated from our ClearCase repository upon request , or a simple unix "diff" can be used.

2 Product Identities

Product Name	Product Number	R-state
OTP	APN 181 01	P1H
ERTS (sunos4)	CXC 138 10/1	P1G
ERTS (sunos5)	CXC 138 10/2	P1G
SASL (BOS) (sunos4)	CXC 138 11/1	P1D
SASL (BOS) (sunos5)	CXC 138 11/2	P1D
MNESIA	CXC 138 12/1	P1E
SNMPEA	CXC 138 13/1	P1D
ERLDEV (Compiler & Debugger)	CXC 138 15/1	P1C
DEVTOOLS (sunos4)	CXC 138 16/1	P1D
DEVTOOLS (sunos5)	CXC 138 16/2	P1D
XLATETOOLS (sunos4)	CXC 138 17/1	P1D
XLATETOOLS (sunos5)	CXC 138 17/2	P1D
CPO Solaris (XNTP)	CXC 138 46/1	P1A

3 Document Survey

Document name	Document number	Rev
Systems Overview	1551-APN 181 01	A
Erlang Tools Introduction	EPK-95:030/1	A
Erlang Tools User's Guide	EPK-95:030/2	A
Erlang Tools	EPK-95:030/3	A
Distributed Erlang User's Guide	EPK-95:030/4	A
Erlang Tools Examples	EPK-95:030/5	A
User's Guide to the Erlang Interface Library	3/1553-CNA 121 16	A
Erlang Interface Library Examples	1/198 17-CNA 121 16	A
Programmer's Guide to the Erlang Interface Library	2/198 17-CNA 121 16	A
OTP Erlang User's guide	1553-CNA 121 17	A
The Mnesia Query Language Mnemosyne	1553-CNA 121 18	A
SNMPEA User's Guide	1553-CNA 121 19	A
SNMPEA Reference Guide	1551-CNA 121 19	A
User's Guide to the Interface Generator	1553-CNA 121 38	A

A complete browseable document survey is available at the OTP WWW-server http://otp.ericsson.se and can also be found in the release at $OTP_ROOT/doc/all.html when the release file is un-tar:ed at $OTP_ROOT.

4 Implemented Change requests

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5 Implemented Trouble Reports

Block	TR id	Slogan
ERTS	-	erl_call crashes (Segmentation fault) has now been fixed

6 Installation Instructions

The release is delivered as a compressed tar-file otp_APN18101_P1H.<target>.tar.Z, where <target> is substituted with sunos4 or sunos5.

Then the following steps shall be performed at installation time:

• Create a new directory $OTP_INSTALL_DIR where OTP can be installed.

  mkdir $OTP_INSTALL_DIR
  cd $OTP_INSTALL_DIR
  uncompress $XXX/otp_APN18101_P1H.<target>.tar.Z
  tar xvfp  $XXX/otp_APN18101_P1H.<target>.tar

• Run the OTP installscript and answer the questions.

  ./Install $OTP_INSTALL_DIR

  
  The Install command will ask a number of questions during the installation. OBS! When installing on a system where DNS is not used you should answer NO on the question "WILL YOU USE DNS?"
• Prepare the OTP man pages.

  mkdir man/cat1 man/cat3
  ./format_man_pages

• Update the erl_interface library with ranlib (sunos4 only).

  cd $OTP_INSTALL_DIR/usr/lib
  ranlib liberl_interface.a

Add $OTP_INSTALL_DIR/bin to the path variable and $OTP_INSTALL_DIR/man to the MANPATH variable.

Where $XXX denotes the path at which otp_APN18101_P1H.<target>.tar resides.

6.1 Separate (optional) Installation of XNTP (Network Time Protocol)

XNTP (Network Time Protocol) for use in an embedded system running Sunos5 is delivered in this release. The XNTP resides in the tar-file xntp_CXC_13846_P1A.sunos5.tar.Z and can be fetched with Netscape from the same place as the other OTP deliverables.

• Create a new directory $XNTP_DIR where the XNTP distribution can be loaded.

  mkdir $XNTP_DIR
  cd $XNTP_DIR
  uncompress $XXX/xntp_CXC_13846_P1A.sunos5.tar.Z
  tar xvf $XXX/xntp_CXC_13846_P1A.sunos5.tar.Z

• Read the README-file which is included, below follows information which is partly the same as can be found at the end of the README file.
• Note, the xntp3.5a.export subdirectory is not needed for installation.
  Create a suitable configuration file based on the samples in the 'config' directory, and copy it to /etc/ntp.conf.
• Create a directory for the binaries and copy them there:
  

  mkdir -p /opt/xntp/bin
  cp bin/* /opt/xntp/bin

  
  Note!, if you prefer another installation directory for the binaries, you have to edit one line in the "Run Commands" script xntp (located in the init directory):

  BINDIR=<your new bindir>

• Install the "Run Commands" script:
  

  cp init/xntp /etc/init.d/xntp<br>
  ln /etc/init.d/xntp /etc/rc0.d/K57xntp
  ln /etc/init.d/xntp /etc/rc1.d/K57xntp
  ln /etc/init.d/xntp /etc/rc2.d/S78xntp

• Modify the /etc/system file (you probably want to save the original):
  

  cat init/system >> /etc/system

Where $XXX denotes the path at which xntp_CXC13846_P1A.sunos5.tar.Z resides.

7 Some useful notes

To make it possible to browse Framemaker documents through Netscape the files .mime.types and .mailcap should be modified (see below). The modifications can be made as systems defaults if they are placed in e.g /usr/local/lib/netscape (see Netscape Handbook for details) or as personal defaults if placed in the users $HOME directory.

.mime.types

application/x-maker  fm

.mailcap

application/x-maker;	fmclient -f %s

8 Known problems in this release

• In the manual-page for module code, the returned value of the function which is described to be String but in reality it is an Atom (for compatibility reasons). In the next release the return type will however be String as it says in the manual-page.
• On SunOS4.x platforms, the format_man_pages script (executed as a part of installation) will cause following error messages for missing manual sections:
  

  opendir:man{2,4,5,6,7,8,l,n}: No such file or directory

  
  These messages should be ignored.

9 References

Nothing to reference