Building Erlang on Snow Leopard

The macports install of CouchDB requires Erlang (naturally) and Erlang requires WxWidgets and Tk, which are probably pointless for most uses, and won’t compile on 10.6. Here is a patch for the Erlang Portfile that will let you build on pre-GM 10.6. Save the patch to ~/Desktop/erlang.diff

Patching icu

You might also have to patch icu. To test, run: 
sudo port install icu
If it errors, grab the unified diff patch file and save it to your ~/Desktop as “icu.diff” and run: 
cd /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/devel/icu

sudo patch

Patching Erlang

To run the Erlang patch and install the port, just do the following: 
cd /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/lang/erlang

patch

CouchDB?

I can get CouchDB to build, but not to run. I think I’ll let someone else solve this one. Maybe you?

- August 17, 2009
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