[Asterisk-Users] Patching asterisk for spandsp

[Steve Prior]

I just ran into this last weekend.  I believe that you are using a version
of spandsp which is for an older version of Asterisk.

First I had to use the most recent version of spandsp from
the source (if there is anything later by the time you get there use it):
ftp://ftp.opencall.org/pub/spandsp/spandsp-0.0.2pre6/

Instructions on how to add it to extensions.conf are also a bit changed from
what you probably saw in the wiki.  I found the following site to
do the trick:

http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000152.html

All in all his approach works well.  I had to find and install
mime-construct, and had to remember to create the directory under /var/spool where
the faxes would go (he uses /var/spool/asterisk-fax but I prefer /var/spool/asterisk/fax)
but once I did that I started getting pdf emails.

The thing that he doesn't seem to do is to clean up those fax files
after a while.

Good luck
Steve

Eric Rees wrote:
> When I try to patch the Makefile for asterisk with the 
> Apps_makefile.patch from Spandsp I get the following error.
> 
> patching file Makefile
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 47.
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 76.
> 2 out of 2 hunks FAILED
> 
> Has anybody seen this.