Erlang Bus Error
by
Dan Fairs
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last modified
Jun 05, 2008 02:04 PM
I've become interested in CouchDB, written in Erlang. My copy of the 'Programming Erlang' book arrived today, so I tried to fire up the Erlang shell - only to be greeted with a Bus Error.
(Thanks to Jan Lehnardt on the couchdb-user mailing list for apparently being psychic and posting a solution just as I tried to run Erlang.)
Yes, it's that big, bad old Leopard 10.5.3 update at it again. As well as breaking my Time Machine over AirDisk, it broke my Erlang shell.
I've got Erlang installed using MacPorts, so fortunately the solution was as simple as:
sudo port uninstall erlang
sudo port install erlang +universal
Erlang, back in business. Now all I have to do is learn it! (Good thing I did Haskell at uni - never thought I'd be saying that...)
I'll keep you updated how my Adventures in Erlang go. I may even have to add a new Erlang category to the blog.
