[asterisk-dev] Which enviroments are supported, really?

[Corey Farrell]

If you are looking to work with FreeBSD I'd suggest starting at 
FreshPorts [1].  Someone has done the work to get Asterisk working on 
FreeBSD and they've got Asterisk 13.19.0 (they're keeping it current).

[1] https://www.freshports.org/net/asterisk13/


On 01/26/2018 06:41 AM, Alexander Traud wrote:
>> Testing FreeBSD poses other problems however. None of us really work
>> with BSD based distributions so it would take more time that we have
>> available to do any serious testing there.
> Can you give an example of those anticipated problems?
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> Greater differences allow deeper learning. Especially, OpenBSD and FreeBSD look like promising candidates with their different default shells and compilers. If you have a look at my reported issues, those were just copy-and-paste mistakes, slipped through errors, and wrong assumptions; trivial things. But big enough to be a show-stopper for a novice user.
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> I am not about Continues Integration. I am about a manual test after a major release (for example before the xx.2 release) on platforms which should do, but which were not tested. I am not about running the whole Test Suite but just about installing Asterisk and running it once (to double-check there are no loader issues and no false errors). That took me seconds (after updating the dependencies lists for those platforms in the script install_prereq).
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> Then, one goes through the findings. As described above, often easy to fix, especially for the one who introduced that code change. Ideally the remaining issues are reported on Jira, with a note that those issues must be fixed by the community. Done.
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> Integrators and maintainers on those platforms can then use that information as starting point while creating their patches. That should even ease their contribution back upstream.
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