Erlang source files?

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Hi all -

Been using Clear Linux for a few months now and really enjoying it. Currently however, I am trying to add an sqlite dependency to my elixir project. To compile the dependency, this requires that some of the erlang source/include files are in my system path. Specifically, I am getting an error that the file “erl_nif.h” can’t be found. I have elixir 1.9.1/OTP 22/erts 10.4 installed on the system via the openstack-common bundle, but I can’t find the necessary library files, if they are even present. I tried following this suggestion, but my /usr/lib64/erlang folder doesn’t contain any header files. I also tried searching around the file system with find via command line and came up short.

At this point, I see two solutions: either I’m missing the location of these files/I need to add some other bundle to get them, or I should try and uninstall erlang/elixir from the openstack-common bundle and manually install it. Thoughts and/or suggestions?

Thanks

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Hi Gus, welcome to the forums.
I’d definitely log this in Github if there are files missing. Either someone can point at a bundle which has them, or we may need to create a -dev bundle which includes them.
In the short term, manually installing should get you up and running.

Chris

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Hi Chris,

Thanks for the response. I’ll definitely add this as an issue in GitHub. Just to confirm, that would be this repo, correct?

Thanks!

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Correct, yes, that’s where we keep all the bugs.

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