Asdf-erlang: Is there a gentler way to install erlang?

Created on 7 Nov 2019  路  4Comments  路  Source: asdf-vm/asdf-erlang

I'm running asdf install on an Armbian device and installing Erlang is so CPU intensive that it stops responding to ssh requests. Seems like the parallelism might be a bit... aggressive. It's doing a lot of post-download work and I'm wondering if that's particular to Armbian. No precompiled binaries? Is there a flag I can set to reduce the number of jobs?

I have a handful of these devices so if there's a way I can transfer from one machine to the others short of cloning the disks I'd be interested in any pointers.

enhancement help wanted

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There is https://www.erlang-solutions.com/resources/download.html

I don't know if Erlang Solutions offers something that would work on Armbian, but I do see they offer Rasbian packages.

I suppose it would be nice to be able to give users the option of compiling from source or using a pre-built package.

I don't believe it's the best optimization level, but it installs and seems to run.

Is it a matter of not finding precompiled images for my machine or that it prefers installing from source?

It prefers to install from source right now via kerl. We need to add support for install precompiled Erlang packages on our own if possible.

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