[asterisk-users] 64 bit asterisk

[Baji Panchumarti]

  On 10/19/07, Tzafrir Cohen  wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:24:24PM -0400, Baji Panchumarti wrote:
>
> >  I hope you have better success than I did, my problem was
> >  not so much with asterisk in particular but 64-bit in general.
> >
> >  Examples of problems using CentOS 4.5 on x86_64
> >
> >  - many problems loading php5 & mysql from package
> >    repositories.
>
> What repositories did you use?
> I don't recall CentOS 4.5 including PHP5. Is this a third-party package?
> If so: stick with the official PHP4 packages, or complain to whoever
> packaged those PHP5 packages.

  correct, PHP5 is not included, centosplus   repository

> >  - a few asterisk functions don't work, eg  STRFTIME()
>
> What version of Asterisk? What bug number in bugs.digium.com ?

   1.4.12
--  ( copy pasting from a previous thread )
--
--  2007-09-12 20:12 +0000 [r82285]  Tilghman Lesher < tlesher at digium.com>
--
--  * main/stdtime/private.h, main/stdtime/tzfile.h,
--    include/asterisk/localtime.h, main/stdtime/localtime.c: Working
--    on issue #10531 exposed a rather nasty 64-bit issue on
--    ast_mktime, so we updated the localtime.c file from source.
--    Next we'll have to write ast_strptime to match.
--
-- 1.4.12 changelog
--
http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/tags/1.4.12/ChangeLog?view=markup

> >
> >  Perhaps the distro you are using is more caught up on
> >  64 bit.
>
> Debian has long ago included Asterisk on x86_64 and other platforms. And
> it works, as one of the packagers actually has had a x86_64 for quite
> some time.

 I'll get debian a try in the near future since I hear you praise
 it often over other distros.

 thnx,

 -baji.

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