Re: OTP 24.0 has been released

Well done guys.

I’m getting an error about a missing 'netinet/sctp.h’ header.

$ sw_vers


ProductName:    macOS
ProductVersion: 11.2.3
BuildVersion:   20D91

$ kerl build git https://github.com/erlang/otp.git OTP-24.0 24.0

Checking out Erlang/OTP git repository from
https://github.com/erlang/otp.git...
Building Erlang/OTP 24.0 from git, please wait...
Configure failed.
checking for getrusage... yes
checking for sys/event.h... yes
checking for sys/epoll.h... no
checking for sys/devpoll.h... no
checking for sys/timerfd.h... no
checking for netpacket/packet.h... no
checking for netinet/sctp.h... no
configure: error: sctp support requested, but cannot be enabled since
'netinet/sctp.h' is missing
ERROR: /Users/frank/.kerl/builds/24.0/otp_src_git/erts/configure failed!
./configure: line 362: kill: (-67762) - No such process

/Frank

OTP 24
>
> Erlang/OTP 24 is a new major release with new features, improvements as
> well as a few incompatibilities.
>
> Below are some of the highlights of the release:
> Highlights compiler
>
>    - The compiler will now inline funs that are used only once
>    immediately after their definition.
>    - Compiler warnings and errors now include column numbers in addition
>    to line numbers.
>    - Variables bound between the keywords 'try' and 'of' can now be used
>    in the clauses following the 'of' keyword
>    (that is, in the success case when no exception was raised).
>    - Generators in list and binary comprehensions will now
>    raise a {bad_generator,Generator} exception if the
>    generator has an incorrect type
>    Similarly, when a
>    filter does not evaluate to a boolean, a
>    {bad_filter,Filter} exception will be raised.
>    - Warnings for expressions whose result was ignored that could be
>    suppressed by
>    using the anonymous variable '_' can now be suppressed with a variable
>    beginning with '_'.
>    - Selective receive optimization will now be applied much
>    more often.
>    The new recv_opt_info compile flag can be used to print
>    diagnostics relating to this optimization.
>    You can read more about the selective receive
>    optimization in the Efficiency Guide.
>
> erts, kernel, stdlib
>
>    -
>
>    hex encoding and decoding functions added in the binary module
>    -
>
>    The BeamAsm JIT-compiler has been added to Erlang/OTP and will give a
>    significant performance boost for many applications.
>    The JIT-compiler is enabled by default on most x86 64-bit platforms
>    that have a C++ compiler that can compile C++17.
>    To verify that a JIT enabled emulator is running you can use
>    erlang:system_info(emu_flavor).
>    -
>
>    A compatibility adaptor for gen_tcp to use the new socket API has been
>    implemented (gen_tcp_socket).
>    -
>
>    Extended error information for failing BIF calls as proposed in EEP 54
>    has been implemented.
>    -
>
>    Process aliases as outlined by EEP 53 has been introduced.
>    -
>
>    Implementation of EEP 56 in supervisor. It adds the concept of
>    significant children as well as the auto_shutdown supervisor flag. See
>    the supervisor manual page for more information.
>
> ftp
>
>    - Add support for FTPES (explicit FTP over TLS).
>
> ssl
>
>    - Make TLS handshakes in Erlang distribution concurrent.
>    - TLS connections now support EdDSA certificates.
>
> wx
>
>    - The application has been completely rewritten in order
>    to use wxWidgets version 3 as its base.
>    - Added support for wxWebView.
>
> edoc
>
>    - EDoc is now capable of emitting EEP-48 doc chunks. This means that,
>    with some
>    configuration, community projects can now provide documentation for
>    shell_docs
>    the same way that OTP libraries did since OTP 23.0.
>
> For more details about new features and potential incompatibilities see
>
>    - https://erlang.org/download/OTP-24.0.README
>
> Pre built versions for Windows can be fetched here:
> https://erlang.org/download/otp_win32_24.0.exe
> https://erlang.org/download/otp_win64_24.0.exe
>
> Online documentation can be browsed here:
>
>    - http://erlang.org/documentation/doc-12.0/doc
>
> The Erlang/OTP source can also be found at GitHub on the official Erlang
> repository,
> https://github.com/erlang/otp
>
> Many thanks to all the contributors.
>
>