[Asterisk-Users] Problem installing Software Fax SpanDSP support into Asterisk

[Seth Remington]

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 12:08, Jon Bebeau wrote:
> I'm trying to install the SPANDSP software into Asterisk to support
> incoming (mainly) Fax.  I'm following the info in
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Fax.  I downloaded and
> installed the spandsp software from
> ftp://ftp.opencall.org/pub/spandsp/ and followed the directions in
> several documents listed on the on the Tiki page.
>  
> I get down to patch < Makefile.patch that fails with Hunk #1 FAILED at
> 35. and Hunk #2 FAILED at 68.  The Makefile.rej is included below. 
> Not being a Linux wiz-kid, I'm struggling to figure out what when
> wrong and how to fix it.  The problem seems to be related to two
> missing programs app_todd and app_sql_odbc.  Some searching around
> with Google, I find these things seem to have existed at one time (the
> todd anyway).  It seems that the most recent documents:
> http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000152.html 
>  
> Dated March 28, 2004 and the earlier lists documents:
>  
> http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2003-October/025094.html (cache), http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2004-March/041408.html (cache) and http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2004-March/041433.html (cache) (Thanks to Scott Laird) 
>  
> They don't say they have this problem.  I'm thinking Asterisk has
> changed enough in recent times to require some other procedure.  Any
> guidance would help.  Environment:  Redhat 9, Linux 2.4.20-31.9smp and
> Asterisk CVS-HEAD-08/02/04-15:03:06 on a Tyan single P4 3.06Ghz with
> Hyperthreading enabled.
>  
> Is this Fax a viable solution?  Any better/other suggestions for
> faxing?
>  
You are partly correct. The Makefile has changed since that patch was
made and the patch program can't quite figure out how to apply it so it
gives you the hunk FAILED errors.

Try this patch instead:

http://sremington.zapto.org/downloads/asterisk/spandsp/Makefile.patch

-Seth

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