[Asterisk-bsd] Asterisk 1.4.0-beta3 on FreeBSD-6.1

[Olle E Johansson]

24 nov 2006 kl. 16.37 skrev Frank Griffith:

> I've been using FreeBSD for many years but I'm far
> from being a programmer and know even less about the
> Makefiles. I've been reading the manpage on make and
> it's really confusing to a novice like myself.
>
> I would like to try and install the new *-1.4.0-beta3
> on my system along with the new libpri and zaptel. I
> made note of all the dependencies during my last build
> of * and then on a new machine did a pkg_add for them.
> I was amazed at how fast this process works as
> compared to the ports method. Anyway, I got everything
> loaded with the exception of autoconf. I then untarred
> the new beta versions of libpri, zaptel and asterisk.
>
> Of course I realize this will probably not install as
> per the FBSD filesystem discipline,
> /usr/local/etc/...but I'm trying. I logged into the
> #freebsd chatroom on freenode and was immediately sent
> packing with all the rude comments and
> misunderstandings from those who either don't know
> what * is or were pissed that I was trying something
> new...outside of the ports...I heard everything from
> from RTFM to give it up if you're not as smart as us.
> Sheesh! Some people.
>
> I read a few weeks ago that someone in this mailing
> list got *-1.4 installed on FreeBSD. Can anyone tell
> me more about how this is done? What do I need to do
> to the Makefiles? I really want to try out the new gui
> that comes with *-1.4.

The FreeBSD support needs nothing special.
- Unpack
- Run ./configure
- Optionally, run menuselect to disable modules
- run make

Make install will install in /usr/local now.

I have not tried with the FreeBSD zaptel though, that may need  
something, but I hope it should not.

/O