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Default: yes (Enabled)
Kerl will try to probe your Linux distro for build-required packages logging
where the probes fail. You can turn off this behaviour by setting the
environment variable to something other than 1.
environment variable to something other than "yes".

#### `KERL_AUTOCLEAN`

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## Important notes

### Compiling crypto on older macOS

Apple stopped shipping OpenSSL in OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) in favor of Apple's
own SSL library. That makes using homebrew the most convenient way to install
openssl on macOS 10.11 or later. Additionally, homebrew [stopped creating](https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/612)
symlinks from the homebrew installation directory to `/usr/local`, so in
response to this, *if* you're running El Capitan, Sierra, or High Sierra
*and* you have homebrew installed, *and* you used it to install openssl,
`kerl` will ask homebrew for the openssl installation prefix and configure Erlang/OTP
to build with that location automatically.

**Important**: if you already have `--with-ssl` in your `.kerlrc`, `kerl`
will honor that instead, and will not do any automatic configuration.

### Note on .kerlrc

Since `.kerlrc` is a dot file for `/bin/sh`, running shell commands inside the
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### Erlang/OTP support policy

As of 2021 September 17, we are supporting the current Erlang/OTP release version
As of September 2021, we are supporting the current Erlang/OTP release version
and 2 prior release versions (same as upstream Erlang/OTP). Older Erlang/OTP releases
may or may not work. We will advance release support as new releases of Erlang/OTP
become available.
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