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+#!/bin/bash
+
+## This script replaces the default "erl" in erts-VSN/bin. This is necessary
+## as escript depends on erl and in turn, erl depends on having access to a
+## bootscript (start.boot). Note that this script is ONLY invoked as a side-effect
+## of running escript -- the embedded node bypasses erl and uses erlexec directly
+## (as it should). 
+##
+## Note that this script makes the assumption that there is a start_clean.boot
+## file available in $ROOTDIR/release/VSN.
+
+# Determine the abspath of where this script is executing from.
+ERTS_BIN_DIR=$(cd ${0%/*} && pwd)
+
+# Now determine the root directory -- this script runs from erts-VSN/bin,
+# so we simply need to strip off two dirs from the end of the ERTS_BIN_DIR
+# path.
+ROOTDIR=${ERTS_BIN_DIR%/*/*}
+
+# Parse out release and erts info
+START_ERL=`cat $ROOTDIR/releases/start_erl.data`
+ERTS_VSN=${START_ERL% *}
+APP_VSN=${START_ERL#* }
+
+BINDIR=$ROOTDIR/erts-$ERTS_VSN/bin
+EMU=beam
+PROGNAME=`echo $0 | sed 's/.*\\///'`
+CMD="$BINDIR/erlexec"
+export EMU
+export ROOTDIR
+export BINDIR
+export PROGNAME
+
+exec $CMD -boot $ROOTDIR/releases/$APP_VSN/start_clean ${1+"$@"}
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