Giesch
Erlang docs with asdf-vm
I’m using asdf-vm, and trying to get documentation lookup for erlang modules to work.
I compiled erlang with docs, and I can run (eg) ‘erl -man timer’ to get a man page. But in iex, if I run ‘h :timer’, I get ‘:timer was not compiled with docs’.
I’m wondering if this is just not supported yet because of doc formats, or if I have some version mismatch with the asdf precompiled elixir binary.
Here’s the versions I’m using:
$ elixir --version
Erlang/OTP 21 [erts-10.1] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [ds:4:4:10] [async-threads:1] [hipe]Elixir 1.8.1 (compiled with Erlang/OTP 21)
$ cat ~/.tool-versions
erlang 21.1
elixir 1.8.1-otp-21
Ultimately, what I want is to be able to look up erlang functions’ docs in emacs with ‘,-h-h’ via the lsp.
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Eiji
In this topic:
There is a link to Erlang’s bug tracker:
In which there is a comment:
Kenneth Lundin added a comment - 22/Nov/18 2:57 PM
Hi,
I will try to make some progress regarding this in OTP soon and at least take a decision about what to do about this for the OTP 22 release.
Finally there is 22.0-rc1 version of Erlang in asdf-erlang plugin, but I did not tried it yet. As you can see issue have still open status and it’s also not yet resolved, so it’s most probably not yet added to it.
For more information you would need to ask somebody from Erlang Core Team as I did not yet found anything other. Maybe somebody is already working on this … Author of previously mentioned comment is assigned to this ticket, so there is a chance to see stable support for it really soon.
NobbZ
Which packages are this? Please be aware that the installer might tell you to install libwx but you actually need libwx-devel or something. Most Linux distributions do this separation of libraries and their header files.
brightball
Following the instructions here:
https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang/blob/master/README.md#ubuntu-and-debian
I’m not in front of it right now, but from memory it would be missing wx, fop, xsltproc, and odbc
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