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Update to Erlang/OTP R15B01
Presumably fixes PR pkg/46297


Changes in Erlang/OTP R15B01

Highlights:

  * Added erlang:statistics(scheduler_wall_time) to ensure
    correct determination of scheduler utilization. Measuring
    scheduler utilization is strongly preferred over CPU
    utilization, since CPU utilization gives very poor
    indications of actual scheduler/vm usage.
  * Changed ssh implementation to use the public_key application
    for all public key handling. This is also a first step for
    enabling a callback API for supplying public keys and
    handling keys protected with password phrases. Additionally
    the test suites where improved so that they do not copy the
    users keys to test server directories as this is a security
    liability. Also ipv6 and file access issues found in the
    process has been fixed.
  * When an escript ends now all printout to standard output and
    standard error gets out on the terminal. This bug has been
    corrected by changing the behaviour of erlang:halt/0,1,
    which should fix the same problem for other escript-like
    applications, i.e. that data stored in the output port
    driver buffers got lost when printing on a TTY and exiting
    through erlang:halt/0,1. The BIF:s erlang:halt/0,1 has
    gotten improved semantics and there is a new BIF
    erlang:halt/2 to accomplish something like the old
    semantics. See the documentation.
  * The DTrace source patch from Scott Lystig Fritchie is
    integrated in the source tree. Using an emulator with dtrace
    probe is still not supported for production use, but may be
    a valuable debugging tool.
  * Added Torbjörn Törnkvists LDAP client as a new application
    called eldap.
  * Added options for the ssh client to support user keys files
    that are password protected.



Changes in Erlang/OTP R15B

Highlights:

  * Line number and filename information are now included in
    exception backtraces. This information will be
    pretty-printed in the shell and used in crash reports etc.
    In practice it will be much easier to find where something
    failed.
  * The driver interface has been changed to enable 64-bit aware
    drivers. Most importantly the return types for ErlDrvEntry
    callbacks 'call' and 'control' has been changed which
    require drivers to be changed.
  * New in this release is the support for 64 bit Windows.
    The self extracting installer can be found here.
  * CommonTest hooks are now in a final supported version.
  * There is a new GUI tool in the observer application which
    integrates pman, etop, appmon and tv into one tool. The tool
    does also contain functions for activating tracing in an easy way.
  * The Erlang distribution can now be run over the new SSL implementation.


Changes in Erlang/OTP R15A

Notable changes:

OTP-9468  'Line numbers in exceptions'

OTP-9451  'Parallel make'

OTP-4779  A new GUI for Observer. Integrating pman, etop and tv into
          observer with tracing facilities.

OTP-7775  A number of memory allocation optimizations have been
          implemented. Most optimizations reduce contention caused by
          synchronization between threads during allocation and
          deallocation of memory. Most notably:

             Synchronization of memory management in scheduler
             specific allocator instances has been rewritten to
             use lock-free synchronization.

             Synchronization of memory management in scheduler
	     specific pre-allocators has been rewritten to use
	     lock-free synchronization.

             The 'mseg_alloc' memory segment allocator now use
	     scheduler specific instances instead of one
	     instance. Apart from reducing contention this also
	     ensures that memory allocators always create memory
	     segments on the local NUMA node on a NUMA system.

OTP-9632  An ERTS internal, generic, many to one, lock-free
          queue for communication between threads has been
          introduced. The many to one scenario is very common in
          ERTS, so it can be used in a lot of places in the
          future. Currently it is used by scheduling of certain
          jobs, and the async thread pool, but more uses are
          planned for the future.

          Drivers using the driver_async functionality are not
	  automatically locked to the system anymore, and can be
	  unloaded as any dynamically linked in driver.

          Scheduling of ready async jobs is now also interleaved
	  in between other jobs. Previously all ready async jobs
	  were performed at once.

OTP-9631  The ERTS internal system block functionality has been
          replaced by new functionality for blocking the system.
          The old system block functionality had contention
          issues and complexity issues. The new functionality
          piggy-backs on thread progress tracking functionality
          needed by newly introduced lock-free synchronization
          in the runtime system. When the functionality for
          blocking the system isn't used, there is more or less
          no overhead at all. This since the functionality for
          tracking thread progress is there and needed anyway.

Update erlang to R14B04

This release is mainly a stabilization of the R14B03 release (but as
usual there are some new functionality as well).

One pkgsrc change: add flex to USE_TOOLS, so that megaco_flex_scanner_drv
gets built on all SunOS flavors.

Read full announcement at
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R14B04.readme

Don't use SIOCGIFHWADDR on SunOS.

Update Erlang to R14B03

Highlights:
- Initial release of the diameter application.
- Strengthened random number generation.
- Some fixes for bugs that caused crashes.

Read full announcement at
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R14B03.readme

Update to Erlang/OTP R14B02
Highlights composed by Matthew Sporleder.


Changes in R14B02 (http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R14B02.readme)

- It is now possible to use Erlang specifications and types
  in EDoc documentation
- All tests in Erlang/OTP have been converted to be run with
  Common Test as the backend instead of Test Server.
- From this release, the previously experimental halfword
  emulator is now official
- Dependency generation for Makefiles has been added to the
  compiler and erlc
- Add a --fullpath option to Dialyzer (include version 2.4.2)
- Many fixes in erts
- Remove hipe constants pool
- Partial support for recursive structs and unions
- It is now possible to use SSH to sign and verify binary data.
- typer has been rewritten


Changes R14B01 (http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R14B01.readme)

- New ETS option compressed, to enable a more compact storage
  format at the expence of heavier table operations
- There is now a new function inet:getifaddrs/0 modeled after
  C library function getifaddrs() on BSD and Linux that reports
  existing interfaces and their addresses on the host
- Multiple crashes and infinite loops fixed
- AES CTR encryption support in crypto
- erl_call: remove get_hostent
- The Erlang VM now supports Unicode filenames
- New ETS option compressed


Changes in R14B (http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R14B.readme)

- Large parts of the ethread library have been rewritten.
- The changed API of the ethread library has also caused
  modifications in the Erlang runtime system.
- Some Built In Functions (BIFs) are now autoimported
- Added erlang:system_info(build_type)
- A number of memory leaks in the crypto NIF library have been fixed
- erl_call: fix multiple buffer overflows
- NIF 64-bit integer support
- Removed some potential vulnerabilities from the Erlang Port
  Mapper Daemon (epmd)
- Replaced the old http client api module (http) with the new,
  httpc in the users guide.
- inet6 improvements
- ssh fixes
- many ssl improvements/fixes
- wx crash fix


Changes in R14A (http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R14A.readme)

- R14A is a major new release of Erlang/OTP.
- The module binary from EEP31 (and EEP9) is implemented
- It is now possible for the user to provide specific callback
  modules that handle test configuration data
- New NIF features
- Receive statements that can only read out a newly created
  reference are now specially optimized so that it will execute
  in constant time regardless of the number of messages in the
  receive queue for the process.
- The run_test script has been replaced by a program (with the
  same name) which can be executed without explicit installation
- eprof has been reimplemented with support in the Erlang
  virtual machine and is now both faster (i.e. slows down the
  code being measured less) and scales much better


Changes in R13B04 (http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R13B04.readme)

- Many documentation and documentation build improvements
- cross-compile/build improvements
- buffer overflow fix
- telnet keep alive fixes
- compiler crash on boolean ifs
- -Werror for erlc fixed
- macro overloading implemented
- the crypto module now supports Blowfish
- explicit top directories in archive files are now optional
- add lock profiling tool: lcnt
- httpd methods "PUT" and "DELETE" now allowed + others fixes
  to resolver routine
- compression supported when copying between mnesia nodes

Pullup ticket #3080 - requested by tez
lang/erlang: security patch

Revisions pulled up:
- lang/erlang/Makefile				1.45
- lang/erlang/distinfo				1.22
- lang/erlang/patches/patch-ax			1.1
---
Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   tez
Date:           Sat Apr 17 20:10:16 UTC 2010

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/lang/erlang: Makefile distinfo
Added Files:
        pkgsrc/lang/erlang/patches: patch-ax

Log Message:
CVE-2008-2371 pcro buffer overflow fix based on:
http://vcs.pcre.org/viewvc/code/trunk/pcre_compile.c?r1=504&r2=505&view=patch

CVE-2008-2371 pcro buffer overflow fix based on:
http://vcs.pcre.org/viewvc/code/trunk/pcre_compile.c?r1=504&r2=505&view=patch

Dragonfly build fix.
From Goetz Isenmann via private mail.

Update to Erlang/OTP R13B03.

SunOS, Java and ODBC support by Filip Hajny
and some tests by Matthias Kretschmer.


Changes in R13B03
-----------------

There are mostly error corrections, but also some new functionality.
Some highlights in the R13B03 release are:
 - Native Implemented Functions (NIFs) still experimental but very useful.
 - The documentation is built in a new way using xsltproc and Apache FOP.
   The layout is changed both in HTML and PDF versions. This is the first
   step, more changes and improvements will come in the following releases.


Changes between R13A and R13B02 are unknown.


Changes in R13A
---------------

1.1 Erlang Language and Run-time System

Multi-core and SMP performance improvements

There SMP performance is significantly improved:
 - multiple, scheduler specific run queues;
 - further optimized message passing;
 - CPU-bound scheduler threads.

Unicode support as described in EEP10

New BIF's: atom_to_binary/2, binary_to_atom/2, binary_to_existing_atom/2.

Independent Erlang clusters on the same host


1.2 New Applications

Reltool, release management tool.
WxErlang


1.3 New features in Existing Applications

Common_test
 - SSH and SFTP support
 - test case groups

Dialyzer
 - opaque type declarations;
 - UTF segments handling

SSL
 - pure Erlang implementation (except crypto routines)

STDLIB
 - scanner has been augmented to return white-space, comments
 and exact location of tokens.

Make it compile on DragonFly master.

Don't leak the workdir for destdir builds. Patches from OpenBSD ports.
Bump revision.

Force normal linkage against libcrypto. This allows the crypto module to
be build on amd64 and avoids text relocations elsewhere.
Apply build fix for FreeBSD from PR 38984.
Bump revision.

Some pkglint -Wall fixes.

adapt mremap call so erlang builds on NetBSD-current (fixes PR 37131)
patch from Daniel Horecki on #pkgsrc

Full DESTDIR support for erlang packages.

Update erlang, erland-doc and erlang-man to 12.0, aka R12B-0.

This builds again on x86_64 platforms, is@ will test further.

This release supports new language extensions bitstring and binary
comprehensions.

Other major changes are listed on <http://www.erlang.org/doc/highlights.html>.
See <http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R12B-0.readme> for full detail.

Make the port program memsup build again. This way, PLIST is correct, so
that pkg_sync and pkg_tarup work (on NetBSD-4).
memsup.erl/memsup.c still need work to make it actually work on NetBSD.

Revert last change - wrong branch.

Make the memsup port program compile, so that the PLIST ist correct on
NetBSD-4 (at least). Else pkg_sync and pkg_tarup won't work.

Fix build on DragonFly. SCTP is detected, but some struct is missing,
so disable it for now.

Update erlang to 11.5, aka R11B-5.

Pkgsrc changes:
* Drop dependency on X11.
  GS (Graphic System) doesn't use X11 directly, using `wish' command.
  Wish command will be picked up from PATH, to use GS, install wish command
  from x11/tk.
  (closes PR 35373, PR 36418)
* FIxed to install crypto library correctly.
  (closes PR 36616)

Changes list is too long. See attached URL for more detail.

Bug fix release : otp_src_R11B-5
Build date      : 2007-06-12
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R11B-5.readme

Bug fix release : otp_src_R11B-4
Build date      : 2007-03-28
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R11B-4.readme

Bug fix release : otp_src_R11B-3
Build date      : 2007-01-30
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R11B-3.readme

Bug fix release : otp_src_R11B-2
Build date      : 2006-11-07
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R11B-2.readme

Bug fix release : otp_src_R11B-1
Build date      : 2006-08-29
http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R11B-1.readme

Use pkgsrc magic for config.guess/.sub overriding. Tested by is@ for
ARM.

Update to Erlang R11B-0 (erlang-11.0).  Changes since R10B:

=== SMP Support ===

The major news is the support for SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing).

SMP is supported by most modern operating systems like Linux, Windows, Mac OSx,
Solaris and is becoming more important now when dual processors,
hyper-threading technology and multi-core systems are a reality.

With Erlang, most of the problems which occur in multi-threaded programs have
been solved once and for all in the Erlang VM and do not have to be handled by
the application programmers.

In the SMP version of the Erlang virtual machine, there can be many process
schedulers running in separate OS threads. As default there will be as many
schedulers as there are processors or processor cores on the system.

The SMP support is totally transparent for the Erlang programs. That is, there
is no need to change or recompile existing programs. Programs with built-in
assumptions about sequential execution must be rewritten in order to take
advantage of the SMP support, however.

In this release, the Erlang VM supports SMP with focus on stability. There will
follow a number of subsequent steps with necessary optimizations and support
for more platforms.

=== Erlang Language and Related Issues ===

    * The andalso and orelse operators are now allowed to be used in guards.
      That also applies to match specifications.

    * The BIF is_record/3 can now be used in guards. Also, is_record/3 can now
      be called without an erlang: module prefix for consistency with the other
      is_* functions.

    * The compiler options ignore_try and ignore_cond, which allowed code that
      used unquoted try or cond as atoms or record tags, has been removed. Old
      code that depended on the options need to be revised to have occurrences
      of try or cond as atom or record tags single-quoted. (Note: Although cond
      is a reserved keyword, there is no cond statement. It might be introduced
      in a future release.)

    * (ERTS 5.4.8) The new fun M:F/A construct creates a fun that refers to the
      latest version of M:F/A. This syntax is meant to replace tuple funs {M,F}
      which have many problems.

    * (ERTS 5.4.8) The new type test is_function(Fun, Arity) -- which may be
      used in guards -- test whether Fun is a fun that can be applied to Arity
      arguments.

=== New Applications ===

Dialyzer

Dialyzer is a static analysis tool that identifies software discrepancies such
as type errors, unreachable code, unnecessary tests, etc in single Erlang
modules or entire (sets of) applications.

Inviso

The Inviso application, together with some new extensions to Runtime_Tools, is
aimed at providing features for efficient tracing of production Erlang/OTP
systems:

    * Distributed tracing - tracing on any number of Erlang nodes.
    * Autostart - tracing during system start-up.
    * Overload protection - mechanisms for suspending and later reactivating
      tracing, should an overload situation occur.
    * Enhanced use of meta tracing.
    * Trace cases - predefined specifications of what to trace.
    * Off-line merging and formatting of log files.

Inviso is still under development. An easier-to-use trace tool, using the
features listed above, is planned to be released as an R11B patch in Q3/Q4
2006.

SSH

The SSH application is an Erlang implementation of the secure shell protocol.
It is considered to be a beta release, meaning there can be changes made to the
API before it reaches 1.0.

=== Existing Applications ===

Compiler

(Compiler 4.3.6) It is now possible to encrypt the debug information in Beam
files.

Debugger

(Debugger 2.0) The debugger can now handle the try/catch language construct.

Inets

The Erlang implementation of the TFTP procotcol, tftp, is now documented.

Kernel

In Kernel 2.10.X, several bug fixes and improvements have been made in global ,
the global name registration facility.

OS_Mon

(OS_Mon 2.0) The entire OS_Mon application (code and documentation) has been
reviewed and consequently updated with the goal to make the application more
robust, homogeneous and easier to configure.

STDLIB

Added the zip module with functions for reading and creating zip archives.

Update erlang to R10B-10 (10.1.10), a bug fix release for R10B.  The ChangeLog
is available at <http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R10B-10.readme>.

Floating point exceptions are enabled for __x86_64__ on all operation
systems, but the code that take care of them is inly implemented
on Linux.  This made the build go into an infinite loop on NetBSD.

Disable floating point exceptions on NetBSD/amd64 for now, until
I get around implementing and testing the necessary sigaction glue.

- Update Erlang to R10B-9.  (The changes are innumerable, this package hasn't
  been updated in more than two years.)
- Add a buildlink3.mk file.
- Make the Java dependency optional, and disable this option by default (this
  will make erlang build in more bulk builds).

Ok by wiz.

Back out my two previous commits -- they were committed on the wrong branch.
Sorry.

Update Erlang to R10B-9.  The changes are innumerable, this package hasn't been
updated in more than two years.  Also add a buildlink3.mk file.  Ok by wiz.

Add patch from Urban Boquist that should fix bulk build on 2.0/i386.

Add RMD160 digests

Update to version 9.2.

  This  version  is  focused  on  improved performance and stability,
  rather  than introducing new functionality, hence it is called R9C.

Build Process NEW

   The  build  process  has been improved so that it is possible to build
   Erlang/OTP  from  source  even  on  Windows platforms. There is also a
   completely new installation program for Windows.

Observer

  crashdump_viewer NEW

   A  HTML based tool for browsing Erlang crashdumps. The tool can handle
   crashdumps  from  OTP R7B, R8B and R9B as well but there is additional
   information in the crashdumps for R9C.

OTP_MIBs NEW

   The  OTP  mibs  that  where included in the SASL application have been
   moved  to  this  new application otp_mibs. This is a step too create a
   pure   core   for   Erlang/OTP  that  does  not  depend  on  specific,
   non-mainstream applications such as SNMP.

Initial import of erlang-9.1.

Erlang is a programming language which has many features more commonly
associated with an operating system than with a programming language:
concurrent processes, scheduling, memory management, distribution,
networking, etc.

The initial open-source Erlang release contains the implementation of
Erlang, as well as a large part of Ericsson's middleware for building
distributed high-availability systems.

Initial revision