Erlang/OTP                                               October 14, 2001


LAST MINUTE INFORMATION -- Release of Erlang 5.1/OTP R8B


1.      GENERAL
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1.1     Installation Guide

        The installation guide can be found in

                <inst-root>/doc/installation_guide/part_frame.html

1.2     Java

        The Java sources where compiled using JDK 1.2.2.

1.3     Disk space

        An installation of Erlang/OTP needs approximately 55 MB of
        disk space.

1.4     The package contains HTML documentation. You can also get this
        documentation preformatted for printing in PDF format from

            http://www.erlang.se/doc/

        This site also contains HTML documentation for older releases
        as a reference.

1.5     You don't need to recompile your Erlang object file (BEAM
        files) that was compiled with the R7A or R7B compiler but
        doing so may give you some performance improvements.
	

2.      KNOWN BUGS AND PROBLEMS
        -----------------------


3.      NOTES ABOUT THE SOLARIS VERSION
        -------------------------------

3.1     We now distribute two different Solaris versions, one built on
        Solaris 2.5.1 that is also tested on Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7,
        another built using Solaris 8 for v9 processors in 32 bit mode.

        GCC 2.95.3 was used. The version built for Solaris 8 was compiled
        with the target specific flags "-mcpu=v9 -Wa,-xarch=v8plus".

3.2     The HiPE (High Performance Erlang) native code compiler for 
	Solaris Sparc is not included in this release. 
	This is because HiPE is not yet a supported part of
	the product. 
	If you want to try it out you can download and
        build Erlang/OTP from the OpenSource distribution at
        http://www.erlang.org.


4.      NOTES ABOUT THE WIN32 VERSION
        -----------------------------

4.1     Some graphical tools have problems on Windows. Pman may not start
        at the first attempt. Some other tools may give some error
        messages.


5.      NOTES ABOUT THE VXWORKS VERSION
        -------------------------------

        The VxWorks version is described in a separate README file
        that is part of the OTP VxWorks package.


6       NOTES ABOUT THE LINUX VERSION
        -----------------------------

        There is now a supported Linux distribution built on RedHat 7.1
        updated to kernel 2.4.5, glibc 2.2.2, and jdk 1.3.1_01. To run
        this Java version with this configuration you also need an
        older library installed with the RPM
        "compat-libstdc++-6.2-2.9.0.14.i386.rpm".


7.      APPLICATIONS NOTES
        ------------------

        The 'mesh' and 'etk' applications are no longer part of the
        Erlang/OTP distribution.


8.      MORE INFORMATION
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        Visit http://www.erlang.se to find releases and more information.

        Send questions and support requests to <support@erlang.ericsson.se>


