Erlang deployment with Rebar, error hipe {"init termination in do_boot", {'cannot load', hipe, get_file}}

Question

Very new to Erlang, and any attempt to run a simple global hello program using armature results in the following error:

./rel/mysample/bin/mysample console Exec: /home/jwong/erlang_examples/mysample/rel/mysample/erts-5.9.2/bin/erlexec -boot /home/jwong/erlang_examples/mysample/rel/mysample/releases/1/mysample -mode embedded -config /home/jwong/erlang_examples/mysample/rel/mysample/releases/1/sys.config -args_file /home/jwong/erlang_examples/mysample/rel/mysample/releases/1/vm.args -- console Root: /home/jwong/erlang_examples/mysample/rel/mysample {"init terminating in do_boot",{'cannot load',hipe,get_file}} Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump init terminating in do_boot () 

erl -init_debug

 {progress,preloaded} {progress,kernel_load_completed} {progress,modules_loaded} {start,heart} {start,error_logger} {start,application_controller} {progress,init_kernel_started} {apply,{application,load,[{application,stdlib,[{description,"ERTS CXC 138 10"},{vsn,"1.18.2"},{id,[]},{modules,[array,base64,beam_lib,binary,c,calendar,dets,dets_server,dets_sup,dets_utils,dets_v8,dets_v9,dict,digraph,digraph_utils,edlin,edlin_expand,epp,eval_bits,erl_bits,erl_compile,erl_eval,erl_expand_records,erl_internal,erl_lint,erl_parse,erl_posix_msg,erl_pp,erl_scan,erl_tar,error_logger_file_h,error_logger_tty_h,escript,ets,file_sorter,filelib,filename,gb_trees,gb_sets,gen,gen_event,gen_fsm,gen_server,io,io_lib,io_lib_format,io_lib_fread,io_lib_pretty,lib,lists,log_mf_h,math,ms_transform,orddict,ordsets,otp_internal,pg,pool,proc_lib,proplists,qlc,qlc_pt,queue,random,re,sets,shell,shell_default,slave,sofs,string,supervisor,supervisor_bridge,sys,timer,unicode,win32reg,zip]},{registered,[timer_server,rsh_starter,take_over_monitor,pool_master,dets]},{applications,[kernel]},{included_applications,[]},{env,[]},{maxT,infinity},{maxP,infinity}]}]}} {progress,applications_loaded} {apply,{application,start_boot,[kernel,permanent]}} Erlang R15B02 (erts-5.9.2) [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:0] [kernel-poll:false] {apply,{application,start_boot,[stdlib,permanent]}} {apply,{c,erlangrc,[]}} {progress,started} Eshell V5.9.2 (abort with ^G) 

I am running ubuntu 12.04 using erlang compiled using kerl without flag options. The only changes I made to the generated reltool.config file are added to lib_dirs "../../".

It looks very similar [this question] [1], but adding "hipe" to the reltool.config file leads to an error:

 {'EXIT',{{badmatch,{error,"Illegal option: [{app,mysample,hipe,[{mod_cond,app},{incl_cond,include}]}]"}} 

What is going on and how can I solve it?

Answer 1

This turned out to be an exact duplicate of the related question.

The problem was that I was adding a line to the wrong area in the reltool.config file.

Fittings

generates:

 app, mysample, [{mod_cond, app}, {incl_cond, include}]} 

in configuration automatically. Instead of editing the line with "hipe" or adding it to the bottom of the file, the correct configuration was to add it to the sys array under the created application so that it looked like this:

 {app, mysample, [{mod_cond, app}, {incl_cond, include}]}, {app, hipe, [{incl_cond, exclude}]}