[Buildroot] [PATCH v6 16/16] ejabberd: new package.

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Frank Hunleth,

On Wed, 4 Feb 2015 16:17:25 -0500, Frank Hunleth wrote:

> I'm not going to claim to be an Erlang expert, but I can add some
> information. Applications that use lager need to enable Lager's parse
> transform on the host Erlang compiler. The parse transform extracts
> things like module, function, and line number information whenever
> lager:warn, lager:info, etc. are called, so that it can be included in
> the log messages. The parse transform actually has to be compiled for
> the host. When you're not cross-compiling, it doesn't look as weird.

Ok, thanks for the explanation.

> Also, I should say that I've been quietly watching the various Erlang
> patches on the mailing list. What I've seen looks pretty good. I do
> use Erlang with Buildroot, but I use the Erlang Release tools to
> generate the final images. This makes for smaller root filesystems
> (Erlang's libraries are huge and largely irrelevant to most apps) and
> is more compatible with how Erlang people do things. However, it's
> definitely not how I think that things should be done in the Buildroot
> project. I think that you guys are doing it right, so if I work a
> project that just needs ejabberd or another Erlang app, then I'm going
> to switch over to this framework. Thanks for doing this!

Is there a way of doing the same as those Erlang Release tools, and
make sure only the really used libraries are kept?

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com