Building Erlang/OTP
There’s more comprehensive information in various files in the HOWTO
directory, but ain’t nobody got time for that. This works for me.
Building it
export LANG=C
export ERL_TOP="$(pwd)"
./otp_build configure && make -j$(nproc)
Using it
You can sometimes get away with using it directly:
export PATH="$ERL_TOP/bin:$PATH"
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Installing it
But, more often, you’ll need to install it:
make install
…and you can use it from there:
export PATH="$ERL_TOP/install/bin:$PATH"
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