Renamed brod to brod_cli, then created a new shell script named brod.

Made it to lookup erts in parent dir, so a user without erts in PATH
can execut `./brod/bin/brod <command> <opts..>` directly instead of
`/brod/bin/erts-*/bin/escript /brod/bin/brod <command> <opts...>`

.gitignore

@@ -7,14 +7,13 @@ cover/
 test/*.beam
 test/ct.cover.spec
 brod.d
-scripts/brod
+scripts/brod_cli
 .brod.plt
 .erlang.mk
 *.coverdata
 ct.coverdata
 sys.config
 xrefr
-brod
 brod.plt
 _build/
 _rel/

Makefile

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ dep_supervisor3_commit = 1.1.5
 dep_kafka_protocol_commit = 1.1.0
 dep_docopt = git https://github.com/zmstone/docopt-erl.git 0.1.3
 
-ESCRIPT_FILE = scripts/brod
+ERTS_VSN = $(shell erl -noshell -eval 'io:put_chars(erlang:system_info(version)), halt()')
+ESCRIPT_FILE = scripts/brod_cli
 ESCRIPT_EMU_ARGS = -sname brod_cli
 
 COVER = true
@@ -44,8 +45,10 @@ app::
 include erlang.mk
 
 rel:: escript
-	cp $(ESCRIPT_FILE) _rel/brod/bin/brod
-	tar -pczf _rel/brod.tar.gz -C _rel brod
+	@cp scripts/brod _rel/brod/bin/brod
+	@cp $(ESCRIPT_FILE) _rel/brod/bin/brod_cli
+	@ln -sf erts-$(ERTS_VSN) _rel/brod/erts
+	@tar -pczf _rel/brod.tar.gz -C _rel brod
 
 test-env:
 	./scripts/setup-test-env.sh

changelog.md

@@ -58,4 +58,7 @@
     - Make group coordinator restart on heartbeat timeout
 * 3.3.1
   * Fix brod-cli commits command redandunt socket usage.
+* 3.?.?
+  * Enhancements
+    - Add sh script to wrap brod-cli escript for erts dir auto discover
 

scripts/.gitignore

@@ -4,4 +4,3 @@
 *.srl
 *.p12
 *.jks
-brod.escript

scripts/brod

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/sh -e
+
+# can not readlink -f because mac version readlink does not support -f
+LINK="$(readlink "$0")" || true
+if [ -z $LINK ]; then
+  # not a symlink
+  BINDIR="$(dirname "$0")"
+else
+  # get the link target's dir
+  BINDIR="$(dirname "$LINK")"
+fi
+
+ERTS_BIN="$BINDIR/../erts/bin"
+
+if [ -d  "$ERTS_BIN" ]; then
+  # this is a release, try to use erts in release
+  exec $ERTS_BIN/escript $BINDIR/brod_cli "$@"
+else
+  # hoping the user has erts in PATH
+  exec $BINDIR/brod_cli "$@"
+fi
+

src/brod.erl

@@ -90,11 +90,6 @@
         , fetch_committed_offsets/3
         ]).
 
-%% escript
--ifdef(BROD_CLI).
--export([main/1]).
--endif.
-
 -export_type([ call_ref/0
              , cg/0
              , cg_protocol_type/0
@@ -692,10 +687,6 @@ fetch_committed_offsets(BootstrapEndpoints, SockOpts, GroupId) ->
 fetch_committed_offsets(Client, GroupId) ->
   brod_utils:fetch_committed_offsets(Client, GroupId, []).
 
--ifdef(BROD_CLI).
-main(Args) -> brod_cli:main(Args, halt).
--endif.
-
 %%%_* Emacs ====================================================================
 %%% Local Variables:
 %%% allout-layout: t

src/brod_cli.erl

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 -ifdef(BROD_CLI).
 
--export([main/2]).
+-export([main/1, main/2]).
 
 -include("brod_int.hrl").
 
@@ -296,6 +296,8 @@ options:
 
 -type command() :: string().
 
+main(Args) -> main(Args, halt).
+
 main(["-h" | _], _Stop) ->
   print(?MAIN_DOC);
 main(["--help" | _], _Stop) ->