/bin/ed

[cdybedahl]

The list of packages that need to be installed on Ubuntu 10.04LTS should also include 'ed', since /bin/ed is needed to compile Erlang/OTP and it's apparently not included in a default system.

[benatkin]

I ran into this issue as well.

[jhs]

I did not realize anything is calling ed. (The Solaris builds use it to tweak a generated autotools file but not Ubuntu.)

Do you have a log of the error? (Builds usually leave a rake.log file in the top-level.)

I suspect that one of the sub-project build procedures is calling ed. If I can confirm that, I can more confidently state it is an OS dependency. I've wanted to rework dependencies for a long time. I do not like how half of them are in the README and the other half are automatically installed.

[benatkin]

Here's something from my rake.log on a successful build (i. e. after installing ed) on Ubuntu:

STDOUT erlc -W  +debug_info -pa /home/couchdb/build-couchdb/dependencies/otp/lib/diameter/ebin +'{parse_transform,sys_pre_attributes}' +'{attribute,insert,app_vsn,"diameter-0.9"}'  -I../../include -o../../ebin diameter_types.erl
STDOUT erlc -W  +debug_info -pa /home/couchdb/build-couchdb/dependencies/otp/lib/diameter/ebin +'{parse_transform,sys_pre_attributes}' +'{attribute,insert,app_vsn,"diameter-0.9"}'  -I../../include -o../../ebin diameter_watchdog.erl
STDOUT erlc -W  +debug_info -pa /home/couchdb/build-couchdb/dependencies/otp/lib/diameter/ebin +'{parse_transform,sys_pre_attributes}' +'{attribute,insert,app_vsn,"diameter-0.9"}'  -I../../include -o../../ebin diameter_watchdog_sup.erl
STDOUT erlc -W  +debug_info -pa /home/couchdb/build-couchdb/dependencies/otp/lib/diameter/ebin +'{parse_transform,sys_pre_attributes}' +'{attribute,insert,app_vsn,"diameter-0.9"}'  -I../../include -o../../ebin diameter_gen_base_rfc3588.erl
STDOUT ../../bin/diameterc -i ../../ebin -o . diameter_gen_base_accounting.dia
STDOUT erlc -W  +debug_info -pa /home/couchdb/build-couchdb/dependencies/otp/lib/diameter/ebin +'{parse_transform,sys_pre_attributes}' +'{attribute,insert,app_vsn,"diameter-0.9"}'  -I../../include -o../../ebin diameter_gen_base_accounting.erl
STDOUT ../../bin/diameterc -i ../../ebin -o . diameter_gen_relay.dia
STDOUT erlc -W  +debug_info -pa /home/couchdb/build-couchdb/dependencies/otp/lib/diameter/ebin +'{parse_transform,sys_pre_attributes}' +'{attribute,insert,app_vsn,"diameter-0.9"}'  -I../../include -o../../ebin diameter_gen_relay.erl
STDOUT sed -e 's;%VSN%;0.9;' diameter.app.src > ../../ebin/diameter.app
STDOUT M=`echo diameter diameter_app diameter_callback diameter_capx diameter_config diameter_dbg diameter_codec diameter_dict diameter_exprecs diameter_info diameter_lib diameter_misc_sup diameter_peer diameter_peer_fsm diameter_peer_fsm_sup diameter_reg diameter_service diameter_service_sup diameter_session diameter_stats diameter_sup diameter_sync diameter_types diameter_watchdog diameter_watchdog_sup diameter_gen_base_rfc3588 diameter_gen_base_accounting diameter_gen_relay | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ *$//' -e 'y/ /,/'`; \
STDOUT  echo "/%APP_MODULES%/s//$M/;w;q" | tr ';' '\n' \
STDOUT  | ed -s ../../ebin/diameter.app
STDOUT make -C ../compiler  ../../ebin/diameter.app APP_TARGET=../../ebin/diameter.app
STDOUT make[5]: Entering directory `/home/couchdb/build-couchdb/dependencies/otp/lib/diameter/src/compiler'
STDOUT M=`echo diameter_codegen diameter_spec_scan diameter_spec_util | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ *$//' -e 'y/ /,/'`; \
STDOUT  echo "/%COMPILER_MODULES%/s//$M/;w;q" | tr ';' '\n' \
STDOUT  | ed -s ../../ebin/diameter.app
STDOUT make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/couchdb/build-couchdb/dependencies/otp/lib/diameter/src/compiler'
STDOUT make -C ../transport ../../ebin/diameter.app APP_TARGET=../../ebin/diameter.app
STDOUT make[5]: Entering directory `/home/couchdb/build-couchdb/dependencies/otp/lib/diameter/src/transport'
STDOUT for f in diameter_etcp diameter_etcp_sup diameter_tcp diameter_tcp_sup diameter_sctp diameter_sctp_sup diameter_transport_sup; do \
STDOUT      sed -f ../app/depend.sed $f.erl | sed "s@/@/$f@"; \
STDOUT  done \
STDOUT  > depend.mk
STDOUT make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/couchdb/build-couchdb/dependencies/otp/lib/diameter/src/transport'
STDOUT make[5]: Entering directory `/home/couchdb/build-couchdb/dependencies/otp/lib/diameter/src/transport'
STDOUT M=`echo diameter_etcp diameter_etcp_sup diameter_tcp diameter_tcp_sup diameter_sctp diameter_sctp_sup diameter_transport_sup | sed -e 's/^ *//' -e 's/ *$//' -e 'y/ /,/'`; \
STDOUT  echo "/%TRANSPORT_MODULES%/s//$M/;w;q" | tr ';' '\n' \

ed is in there a couple of times. So at least the otp repo seems to be using it.

Here is an occurrence of it in the otp repository.

[jhs]

Thanks. Fixed and pushed.

[reihu]

I'm having the same issue on Debian stable (squeeze). After running: apt-get install ed the issue seems to be fixed.

So please add "ed" to the debian dependendies too.

[jhs]

@reihu Thanks for confirming on Debian. I assumed as much but tried to be conservative on the patch to avoid outsource testing it.

Committed and pushed.