[asterisk-dev] some modest suggestions for 1.6

[Thomas Kenyon]

Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 
>>> make menuselect
>> ./configure --help
>>
>> Both serve just about ther same to confuse the would-be installer :-)
> 
> Not at all. Running menuselect will show the installer exactly what
> *can* be built, and what is selected to be built. If there are
> configure-time options that could affect that (like choice of GSM
> library for example) then the configure help text is useful as well, but
> to answer the OP's question he could have know what was going to be
> built by using menuselect. This has not changed at all from Asterisk 1.4.
> 
Not to mention giving you some idea of which libraries you need to 
install for a particular feature. (don't forget to ./configure again 
after installing the libraries).