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Re: Help wanted: search paths for Erlang and Elixir
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Ivan Sokolov |
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Re: Help wanted: search paths for Erlang and Elixir |
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Wed, 19 Apr 2023 23:28:22 +0300 |
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Ivan Sokolov <ivan-p-sokolov@ya.ru> writes:
> In order for the Erlang runtime to find the installed application it
> must appear in the load path. If there is ERL_ROOTDIR in the
> environment, erl(1) will search for application directories in
> $ERL_ROOTDIR/lib and will add them to the load path. ([2] mentions
> $OTPROOT but it's probably an error in the documentation.)
It turns out that OTPROOT is not a real variable, but a placeholder for
the Erlang installation directory, and ERL_ROOTDIR is intented for
internal use only. Thus ERL_LIBS is the only option left.
> [2]: https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/code.html#code-path