[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 1.8 and MP3 code?

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Monday 02 August 2010 15:02:18 Philip Prindeville wrote:
>   On 8/2/10 12:50 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:24:18PM -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> >>    On 8/2/10 11:25 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 12:26:50PM -0500, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> >>>> Well, it's Russell's call to make, and he's on vacation today, but
> >>>> that strategy could certainly work; we could move the 'mpglib' stuff
> >>>> to our thirdparty repository.
> >>>
> >>> That said, I noticed that the Debian package (of asterisk-addons 1.6.2)
> >>> does not use the system copy of libmpg123 (from mpg123, originally). I
> >>> guess this is a related issue.
> >>
> >> Anyone else see this as a reason to do out-of-tree builds of certain
> >> modules?
> >
> > Asterisk-addons (that is:<= 1.6.2) builds out of tree.
> >
> > There are a number of other out-of-tree packages we have to build,
> > anyway. It has generally worked well.
> >
> > It is normally rather trivial to create a simple makefile that will
> > build a single Asterisk module. If all you want is to build format_mp3.c
> > out of the Asterisk tree, I don't mind helping you with that.
>
> Sorry, I should have been more specific.
>
> I'm suggesting that all of the add-ons be distributed as a separate
> tarball, and that the mechanism to build them out-of-tree be enshrined in
> the asterisk main tarball as a means to do so.
>
> We had a conference call about this a few months ago, and the answer then
> was "just copy it into the source tree and build it there", which I didn't
> think was the best of all possible solutions.

We also suggested that you create your own Makefile and maintain it yourself,
which is exactly what Tzafrir volunteered to help you do (well, without the
maintenance).

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