A library is missing

mfoss — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:42:24 +0000

RastaFaI wrote:

bash-2.05b# ./configure
...
checking for erl... /opt/bin/erl
{"init terminating in do_boot",{badarg,[{erlang,'++',[{error,bad_name},"\n"]},{conftest,start,0},{init,start_it,1},{init,start_em,1}]}}
...

The problem appears on conftest:start/0. That code is available in ejabberd/src/configure line 2488 aprox:

start() ->
    EIDirS = code:lib_dir("erl_interface") ++ "\n",
...

As the error tells, when your configure executes 'code:lib_dir("erl_interface")', it gets '{error,bad_name}' as a result, and that is a bad thing.

I ran this simple test on Debian unstable with source compiled Erlang/OTP R10B-9:

$ erl
Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.4.12 [source] [hipe] [kernel-poll]

Eshell V5.4.12  (abort with ^G)
1> code:lib_dir("erl_interface").
"/usr/local/lib/erlang/lib/erl_interface-3.5.4"
2> code:lib_dir("erl_interfaqqqqq").
{error,bad_name}
3>q().

As you can see, if I request a strange library, or at least one that is not installed, the error appears. Maybe Erlang wasn't fully compiled, or installed, or was installed on a different path. You can try to specify the location of Erlang libraries, somehow.

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A library is missing