From db09cd7fe0751ef44c8d443da04424832f06f496 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Allen Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 14:47:33 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Explain how to build releases of Erlang 17+ --- README.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 86fca31..e8e0d62 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -60,6 +60,17 @@ Supported platform At the moment only Mac OS X is supported. It should be easy to add Linux or other Unix support. +Some selected Erlang versions +----------------------------- +`erlbrew` has been tested and works on R14B04 onward. Building Erlang before R14 +may or may not work and we have little interest in making it work if its broken. (Sorry!) + +For the [release of Erlang 17](http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-April/078563.html), Ericcson decided to move to a new release naming scheme, +dropping the R and the build numbers. So for the most recent release (as of +3 November 2014), you would type: + + $ erlbrew install 17.3 + Something broke --------------- erlbrew does its work in a work directory located at `$HOME/erlbrew/.build/current`