[jira] [Commented] (COUCHDB-162) improve configure script's ability to find erl_driver.h

["Noah Slater (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Noah Slater commented on COUCHDB-162:
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Why was this closed as WONTFIX, Jan?

> improve configure script's ability to find erl_driver.h
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-162
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-162
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Build System
>            Reporter: Adam Kocoloski
>            Assignee: Noah Slater
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Hi, if I configure and install Erlang with a custom --prefix=/path/to/erlang, CouchDB's configure script finds `erl` and `erlc` from the environment, but it usually needs to be told about the location or erl_driver.h:
> ./configure --with-erlang=/path/to/erlang/lib/erlang/usr/include
> It'd be nice if the configure script could check that location automatically, e.g. determining /path/to/erlang by stripping bin/erl off the path to `erl` that it found earlier.  
> Alternatively, I think --with-erlang ought to be modified to take the path to the base of the Erlang installation, rather than the exact path to the location of the folder containing erl_driver.h.  Best,
> Adam

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