[Bug 1290348] Re: Erlang/OTP observer crashes due to problem with wx library

[Josy]

>From what I tested Freebsd has now a nicely working solution for this issue available: 
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195403

Please check the solution and decide, whether a similar solution is
viable for ubuntu.

https://www.freshports.org/lang/                         (Search for erlang)
https://www.freshports.org/lang/erlang              (Basis package for server operation)
http://www.freshports.org/lang/erlang-wx         (Add this optional package to use the erlang observer or erlang debugger GUI)
https://www.freshports.org/lang/erlang-java/    (Add this optional package to use erlang-java bindings)

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Title:
  Erlang/OTP observer crashes due to problem with wx library

Status in erlang package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  michael at michael-HP-Compaq-6735s:~$ erl
  Erlang R16B03 (erts-5.10.4) [source] [64-bit] [smp:2:2] [async-threads:10] [kernel-poll:false]

  Eshell V5.10.4  (abort with ^G)
  1> ls 
  1> .
  ls
  2> observer:start().
  ** exception error: undefined function wx_object:start/3
       in function  observer_wx:start/0 (observer_wx.erl, line 66)
  3>

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