[99s-extend] [erlang-questions] [ANN] erlang.mk build tool

[Grzegorz Junka]

Why not use Erlang for downloading? Surely if erlang.mk is a tool for 
Erlang then it will be very likely installed. For example this target 
downloads Rebar:

# Erlang Rebar downloading, see:
# 
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/erlang-programming/U0JJ3SeUv5Y
rb_rebar_url=http://cloud.github.com/downloads/basho/rebar/rebar
./rebar:
$(ERL) -noshell -s inets -s ssl \
-eval 'httpc:request(get, {"$(rb_rebar_url)", []}, [], [{stream, 
"./rebar"}])' \
-s init stop
chmod +x ./rebar
REBAR=$(shell (type rebar 2>/dev/null || echo ./rebar) | tail -1 | awk 
'{ print $$NF }')


It could be used to download anything, not just REBAR.

- Greg


On 16/08/2013 15:34, Loïc Hoguin wrote:
> On 08/16/2013 10:39 AM, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
>> The big problem with erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> is requiring to have
>> gmake and more importantly wget installed imo.
>
> wget is only used for fetching the package index file. I'm sure if it 
> doesn't work somewhere it'll be patched eventually.
>
>> Which makes it quite annoying to distribute on systems that have none of
>> them. It would be interrestin to have the support for curl for example.
>> Also what are the makefile extensions that you really need to require 
>> gmake?
>
> No idea. Patches are welcome for compatibility with different OS/build 
> tools (as long as it's not "rewrite the whole file" of course, then 
> you're better off just using gmake).
>
>> - benoit
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Loïc Hoguin <essen at ninenines.eu
>> <mailto:essen at ninenines.eu>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello friendly people,
>>
>>     I would like to make an official announcement of erlang.mk
>>     <http://erlang.mk> now that all the features I wanted are in.
>>
>>     erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> is a rebar replacement. It was
>>     initially created for allowing a faster development process than
>>     rebar and for better compatibility with Linux build tools. It should
>>     work on Linux and OSX with GNU Make installed.
>>
>>     Projects using erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> are still compatible
>>     with rebar. Dependencies fetched by rebar are stored in the same
>>     deps/ directory, and projects using erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> can
>>     still be used as rebar dependencies, with or without a rebar.config
>>     file.
>>
>>     erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> also features a simple package index.
>>     Try `make pkg-list` to list all packages currently available. All
>>     the packages listed are compatible with erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk>
>>     with no tweaking required.
>>
>>     Makefiles written with erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> are *VERY*
>>     simple, here are two examples:
>>
>>       * https://github.com/extend/__farwest/blob/master/Makefile
>> <https://github.com/extend/farwest/blob/master/Makefile>
>>       * https://github.com/extend/__cowboy/blob/master/Makefile
>> <https://github.com/extend/cowboy/blob/master/Makefile>
>>
>>     I wrote about erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> and relx recently on the
>>     Nine Nines blog. erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> is the perfect
>>     companion to relx.
>>
>>       * http://ninenines.eu/articles/__erlang.mk-and-relx
>>     <http://ninenines.eu/articles/erlang.mk-and-relx>
>>
>>     Here are examples of projects that are using and compatible with
>>     erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk>:
>>
>>       * https://github.com/jlouis/__etorrent
>>     <https://github.com/jlouis/etorrent>
>>       * https://github.com/extend/__cowboy
>>     <https://github.com/extend/cowboy>
>>       * https://github.com/extend/__farwest
>>     <https://github.com/extend/farwest>
>>
>>     You can find erlang.mk <http://erlang.mk> at the following URL:
>>
>>       * https://github.com/extend/__erlang.mk
>>     <https://github.com/extend/erlang.mk>
>>
>>     Contributions to the package index are of course welcome! The only
>>     requirement is that the package is to be compatible with erlang.mk
>>     <http://erlang.mk> itself. Just send a PR to the erlang.mk
>>     <http://erlang.mk> project updating the packages.v1.txt!
>>
>>     Enjoy!
>>
>>     --
>>     Loïc Hoguin
>>     Erlang Cowboy
>>     Nine Nines
>>     http://ninenines.eu
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