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Running erl in a debugger

In Erlang on 18 December 2009 with no comments

Let’s say you need to debug a port driver in Erlang. This typically involves gdb (unless you prefer the printf route). Go to where erlang is installed and edit the bin/erl script. Change the last line from:

exec $BINDIR/erlexec ${1+”$@”}

to:

if [ ! -z "$USE_GDB" ]; then
gdb [...]