michaelwa
Hello,
While installing nerves on MacOS following the installation guide at Installation — nerves v1.14.3 I completed the MacOS section and then proceeded to the “All Platforms” section. Everything was going well until I hit the following step:
asdf install erlang 21.1
Where I keep getting the following error:
=== running autoconf in lib
./otp_build: line 319: autoconf: command not found
make: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop.
<$HOME>/.asdf/plugins/erlang/kerl-home/builds/asdf_21.1/otp_src_21.1/configure --cache-file=/dev/null --enable-darwin-64bit --with-ssl=/usr/local/opt/openssl
./otp_build: line 338: ./configure: is a directory
It is correct I do not have a program installed called “autoconf”. I should also note that I have already installed Elixir and Erlang versions prior to starting down the asdf installation path. (Not sure if that is a problem or not. It was not specified on the process to follow if there was pre-existing Elixir/Erlang setup).
Thanks
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NobbZ
In the asdf Erlang readme is a section “before asdf install” or something like that, it has a subsection for osx, explaining the installation of its prerequisites via brew: asdf-erlang/README.md at master · asdf-vm/asdf-erlang · GitHub
michaelwa
Thank you for the quick reply.
I think this is already installed.
I was actually using the Installation — nerves v1.14.3 URL. The first two steps are different.
michaelwa
That worked!! Thank you for the quick reply!!
thovoll
Thanks, this helped me out!