Use GitHub to build lang/erlang* ports

[olgeni]

Summary

Right now, updating any of the Erlang ports requires generating patches manually from the git repo, hosting them somewhere, and hosting the prebuilt BEAM files without which the build can fail in mysterious and unexpected ways.

By removing all hosted files, lang/erlang will behave like a "normal" port at last. Also, the big Wx configure patches can go away.

Casualties: erlang-wx is no longer able to build demo.erl, but that's really minor.

[mat]

The comments apply to the three Makefiles.

lang/erlang-java/Makefile

26

Remove, default.

28

DISTVERSIONPREFIX= OTP-

30

Remove, default. (There should be a warning telling you so.)

[olgeni]

Misc. port fixes plus upgrade to 19.3.6.13.

[olgeni]

Fix typo (pre-configure-{MX->WX}-off).

[olgeni]

Working on a few more fixes..

[olgeni]

Moved all WX-dependent applications to lang/erlang-wx, plus more small fixes.

[dch]

minor tweaks to download sites.

Also, I suggest we bump to 20.3.8.20 (latest I could find) already when committing this.

lang/erlang-java/Makefile

9

neither of the additional MASTER_SITES actually have a www site anymore. Let's drop them.

10

likewise

37

shouldn't this be --without-wx

lang/erlang-wx/Makefile

9

drop

10

drop

lang/erlang/Makefile

10

drop

11

drop

43

can we add a note that from 22 onwards HIPE should be removed from defaults due to lacking support for all opcodes?

[olgeni]

Added all the relevant fixes.

I would like to proceed like this:

• Switch everything to GitHub (runtimes too)
• Split erlang-man to get rid of the extra distfile here
• Upgrade the port to either 20 or 21
• Start deprecating lots of Erlang/Elixir library ports, like it was done for golang (same issues here)

Does it sound ok?

[olgeni]

lang/erlang/Makefile

10

We need to keep erlang.org for a bit more until I split erlang-man out of the port, then it can be dropped.

43

Sure - I just saw it in the 22rc1 relnotes.

[olgeni]

lang/erlang/Makefile

43

Afterthought - would this affect dialyzer?

[dch]

ship it - I think hipe and dialyzer will need some care for 22 but we don’t have to fix it right now.

[mat]

lang/erlang-java/Makefile

19

You should remove ${LOCALBASE}/bin/ here and in all other DEPENDS lines.

26

This should be the line after USE_GITHUB. (goes for all other ports too.)

[olgeni]

GH and DEPENDS fixes.