Compiling Erlang on Ubuntu

For playing with distributed stuff, I’m using a bunch of Ubuntu ‘machines’ running under VMWare Server. There’s no particular reason for using Ubuntu other than that I happened to have a VM image (Ubuntu-6.06.1-desktop-i386) kicking around already, and it’s not really necessary to compile as packages are available, but I prefer it that way. Anyway, for reference, here is a quick guide to compiling Erlang from the starting point of a basic Ubuntu installation:

1. From your home directory, get the Erlang source: wget http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R11B-5.tar.gz
2. Unpack it: tar -xzf otp_src_R11B-5.tar.gz
3. Get a working gcc: sudo apt-get install build-essential
4. Get the ncurses development libraries: sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
5. Get m4: sudo apt-get install m4
6. Optionally, get the ssl libraries: sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
7. Go into the erlang source directory: cd otp_src_R11B-5
8. Run the configuration script: ./configure
9. Compile it all: make
10. Install it: sudo make install

The above should all go smoothly, leaving you with a working Erlang setup. To confirm this, type erl to get an Erlang prompt.

文章转自：http://ciarang.com/posts/compiling-erlang-on-ubuntu