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Erlang is a concurrent, functional language, adapted to writing distributed, fault tolerant systems.

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USE flags

USE flags for dev-lang/erlang Erlang programming language, runtime environment and libraries (OTP)

+kpoll	Enable kernel polling support
doc	Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally
emacs	Add support for GNU Emacs
java	Add support for Java
odbc	Add ODBC Support (Open DataBase Connectivity)
sctp	Support for Stream Control Transmission Protocol
ssl	Add support for SSL/TLS connections (Secure Socket Layer / Transport Layer Security)
systemd	Enable use of systemd-specific libraries and features like socket activation or session tracking
tk	Add support for Tk GUI toolkit
wxwidgets	Add support for wxWidgets/wxGTK GUI toolkit

Data provided by the Gentoo Package Database · Last update: 2025-01-17 15:43 More information about USE flags

Emerge

Install:

root #emerge --ask dev-lang/erlang

Usage

Invocation

user $erl

Erlang/OTP 24 [erts-12.0.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:12:12] [ds:12:12:10] [async-threads:1] [jit]

Eshell V12.0.2  (abort with ^G)
1> 

To exit the shell: Ctrl+g then q and Return.