Erlang/OTP R16B02 on SmartOS

15 Oct 2013

Mainly, so I don’t forget, here’s a series of configure flags that allow you to build Erlang R16B02 on SmartOS successfully. This was done on a Joyent SmartMachine.

./configure --enable-hipe --enable-smp-support --enable-threads \

            --enable-kernel-poll --with-ssl=/opt/local \

            --without-javac --enable-m64-build --without-odbc \

            --enable-native-libs

There are a few interesting things here:

This enables HiPE. Supposedly there are problems with HiPE on any of the OpenSolaris derived systems, specifically OmniOS and SmartOS. I build this release in the process of testing HiPE, so I’ve enabled both the HiPE application and native library compilation.
I’ve disabled the JInterface application, because I was running into problems with the generated Makefile. See below.
I’ve also disabled the ODBC application, because the freetds package in SmartOS, while providing the correct header files appears to be missing some of the runtime library dependencies needed.
Finally, I’ve manually specified the path to the correct OpenSSL package, which is located in /opt/local so the crypto application builds correctly.

JInterface Makefile Problems

I’ve submitted a bug to Erlang/OTP, but the Makefile generation for JInterface also has some problems. Here’s an excerpt of my post to erlang-bugs:

There are a few places where the generated Makefiles for the interface
integration fail compilation because they assume that /bin/sh supports
the '-d' flag, which it does not on SmartOS.  I believe the solution
here is to adapt the Makefile so that this command is changed to:

if [ ! test -d "/root/repos/otp_src_R16B02/lib/jinterface/priv/" ]

=== Entering application jinterface
make[3]: Entering directory `/root/repos/otp_src_R16B02/lib/jinterface/java_src'
make[4]: Entering directory `/root/repos/otp_src_R16B02/lib/jinterface/java_src/com/ericsson/otp/erlang'
if [ ! -d "/root/repos/otp_src_R16B02/lib/jinterface/priv/" ];then mkdir "/root/repos/otp_src_R16B02/lib/jinterface/priv/"; fi
CLASSPATH=/root/repos/otp_src_R16B02/lib/jinterface/java_src/ -d /root/repos/otp_src_R16B02/lib/jinterface/priv/ OtpAuthException.java
/bin/sh: line 1: -d: not found
make[4]: *** [/root/repos/otp_src_R16B02/lib/jinterface/priv/com/ericsson/otp/erlang/OtpAuthException.class] Error 127
make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/repos/otp_src_R16B02/lib/jinterface/java_src/com/ericsson/otp/erlang'
make[3]: *** [opt] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/repos/otp_src_R16B02/lib/jinterface/java_src'
make[2]: *** [opt] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/repos/otp_src_R16B02/lib/jinterface'
make[1]: *** [opt] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/repos/otp_src_R16B02/lib'
make: *** [tertiary_bootstrap_build] Error 2

This is running on the following build of SmartOS: SunOS 5.11 joyent_20130322T181205Z i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris

Hopefully this helps next time you need to build Erlang on SmartOS.

Christopher Meiklejohn

Erlang/OTP R16B02 on SmartOS

JInterface Makefile Problems