I know that this is not what you want, but I found that it is not so bad to collect the rabbit bit that the rabbitmq-erlang client needs, plus the rabbitmq-erlang client, in Debian packages, and getting that works quite easily.
I have build-dep on a rabbitmq server, although this is not the cleanest solution. And it never went into production.
At that time, I did not find an alternative AMQP client for erlang.
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