Builds Erlang R15B03 from source on the Raspberry Pi. Tested on the 2012-12-16 build of Raspbian (Wheezy)

r15b03-on-raspbian1212.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Pull this file dowm, make it executable and run it with sudo
#  wget https://gist.github.com/raw/4361444/r15b03-on-raspbian1212.sh
#  chmod u+x r15b03-on-raspbian1212.sh
#  sudo ./r15b03-on-raspbian1212.sh

if [ $(id -u) != "0" ]; then
    echo "You must be the superuser to run this script" >&2
    exit 1
fi

apt-get update

# Install the build tools (dpkg-dev g++ gcc libc6-dev make)
apt-get -y install build-essential

# automatic configure script builder (debianutils, m4 [for HiPE], perl)
apt-get -y install autoconf

# Needed for terminal handling (libc-dev libncurses5 libtinfo-dev libtinfo5 ncurses-bin)
apt-get -y install libncurses5-dev

# For building ssl (libssh-4 libssl-dev zlib1g-dev)
apt-get -y install libssh-dev

# ODBC support (libltdl3-dev odbcinst1debian2 unixodbc)
apt-get -y install unixodbc-dev

mkdir -p ~/code/erlang
cd ~/code/erlang

if [ -e otp_src_R15B03.tar.gz ]; then
    echo "Good! 'otp_src_R15B03.tar.gz' already exists. Skipping download."
else
    wget http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R15B03.tar.gz
fi

tar -xvzf otp_src_R15B03.tar.gz
chmod -R 777 otp_src_R15B03
cd otp_src_R15B03
./configure
touch lib/wx/SKIP
make
make install

exit 0