Ivan Sokolov <ivan-p-soko...@ya.ru> writes: > In order for the Erlang runtime to find the installed application it > must appear in the load path. If there is ERL_ROOTDIR in the > environment, erl(1) will search for application directories in > $ERL_ROOTDIR/lib and will add them to the load path. ([2] mentions > $OTPROOT but it's probably an error in the documentation.)
It turns out that OTPROOT is not a real variable, but a placeholder for the Erlang installation directory, and ERL_ROOTDIR is intented for internal use only. Thus ERL_LIBS is the only option left. > [2]: https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/code.html#code-path