calebjosue
Hello there all,
If you are using Debian 12 (Bookworm) then you have access to elixir 1.14.0 from the official packages.
I wanted to install elixir 1.16.1
After installing erlang 26, and downloading Elixir following the instructions in the docs. I proceeded and before executing make I took a look at the arriving files within the tar, I realizing there is an existing bin folder, with fully functional elixir binaries ready to be executed.
Take a look at the following image portraying the above paragraph.
Is it OK to add these binaries to the path variable, or do we really need to execute make? Perhaps there is another tool getting compiled with make non arriving in the bin folder?
Thanks
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al2o3cr
Those aren’t binaries, they’re wrapper scripts - for instance, the one in
bin/elixircollects the command-line args and ultimately calls a binary inlib/elixir/ebin(which is produced bymake)calebjosue
Thank you.
Sill, my question (Hmmm… Not a question per se, I would say my comment instead) remains quite the same. I was able to initiate an elixir session without running
makefirst (see the image in the original (first) post).No a big deal buddy, and then again, you are right, existing files in
binare scripts.Thank you, and thank you.