esh.mk

This is an erlang.mk plugin to use the esh template engine.

See esh project and esh man page .

This plugin can be used to generate any Erlang project file which content can depends of OS or environment.

Install

BUILD_DEPS = esh_mk
DEP_PLUGINS = esh_mk

include erlang.mk

if a specific branch or version is required, use this syntax :

BUILD_DEPS = esh_mk
dep_esh_mk = git https://github.com/crownedgrouse/esh.mk master  # for branch master

include erlang.mk

Usage

Once esh plugin declared in your project's Makefile, simply run :

$> make esh          # Generate targets from esh templates only

or

$> make app          # Generate targets from esh templates before app

First call will show the wget command output to download esh tarball. If some proxy parameters are needed, considere use of wgetrc file.

Any file with suffix .esh found under project's root directory will be treated and a target file generated in same directory with same name without .esh suffix.

For instance :

• .config files
• vm.args file

No output is displayed unless a syntax error occurs. In such case error will be printed.

Common caveat

As make is using /bin/sh by default, underneath command esh is launched with this shell too by default. If your current shell is not /bin/sh and your template is using environment variables in any way, you must tell make and esh to use your prefered shell.

For instance for /bin/bash :

export MAKESHELL=$SHELL ; export ESH_SHELL=$MAKESHELL

Override environment variables

If environment variables need to be overridden, variable ESH_VARS can be used. Declaration can to be done before make command, or set in Makefile file.

$> ESH_VARS="logs_dir=/var/log tmp_dir=/tmp " make esh

BUILD_DEPS = esh.mk
DEP_PLUGINS = esh.mk
ESH_VARS="logs_dir=/var/log tmp_dir=/tmp "

include erlang.mk

See also next section Help for other esh variables.

Help

Using erlang.mk help-plugins target will tell you that target esh_help will output esh script help. This help will show you other variables available to tune esh.

Force update/install

In order to force install or update again, considere removing .erlang.mk/esh.mk/ and deps/esh.mk/ directories.