[Asterisk-bsd] Compiling ASterisk on FreeBSD 5.4

[Brandon Penglase]

> On the subject of the port... is there a reason that the FBSD ports
> collection has the versions it does for asterisk and all its
> dependancies? Several seem a long way out of date. Asterisk itself is
> 1.0.7 which is fine, but 
> 
> Package		version	date	current	date
> pwlib		1.5.0	6/6/03	1.9.0	3/7/05
> openh323	1.12.0	6/6/03	1.17.1	3/10/05
> openmcu		1.1.7	3/7/03	2.1.0	3/10/05
> 
> These are the sourceforge versions... it appears that the 'latest
> versions' on openh323.org are pwlib-1.5.2, openh323-1.12.2 (all from
> 2003). I'm not sure of the relationship between openh323.org and the
> openh323 project on sourceforge.

I know with Zaptel, FBSD's ports is at 0.83, I think, While the version
on digium is 1.0.7. The reason for this is the difference between Linux
and FBSD, where you need to have two different version. That _might_ be
the case with the above. Or simply, the maintainer(s) got lazy :p

     Brandon

> 
> Before I spend time trying the newer versions of pwlib and openh323
> and opening PR to get updates to FBSD ports... has anyone tried the
> newer versions and did they work OK/better? I'm likely going to try
> the newer versions anyway with gnugk (which is also old in FBSD Ports)
> 
> Thanks!
>