[asterisk-users] Recompile Asterisk

[LL]

The "*show version*" command returns : *Asterisk 1.4.25.1 built by root @*
(Danny) Your idea seems to be the safest one.

This is what I'll do :
1 - setup a *new virtual machine* with the same OS and version as the 
*master server* where asterisk is installed.
2 - *vm asterisk - *install the required libraries to compile asterisk 
and other custom apps
3 - *vm asterisk - *compile custom apps (app_mp4  -> 
http://asteriskvideo.svn.sourceforge.net/)
4 - *vm asterisk - *compile asterisk 1.4.25 (my version is 25 and not 
13)  any good tutorial on this ?
5 - *master asterisk - *backup **server modules - 
/usr/local/asterisk/modules/*.so
6 - copy the newest compile modules from the *vm asterisk* to the 
*master asterisk*

Questions:
1 - Do I need to backup any other files besides 
/usr/local/asterisk/modules/*.so   ?
2 - Will asterisk "assume" the new modules just by restarting it ?
3 - if everything goes wrong can I restore asterisk by coping the backup 
modules ?

Any help will be very welcome,
Happy 2012!
LL

On 12/30/2011 7:55 PM, Danny Nicholas wrote:
> The "safest" (IMO) method for installing new settings would be to download
> 1.4.13 (if you can find that old of an archive) and build it on another
> machine, then copy the needed .so modules to /usr/local/asterisk/modules on
> your running machine.  You should be able to see if it was compiled or built
> from an rpm by doing "show version" from CLI.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of LL
> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 11:12 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Recompile Asterisk
>
> I'm sorry if I gave conflicting information but I didn't setup this specific
> freepbx/asterisk and I'm not sure if it was compiled from source, probably
> not, but I'll have to double check it the person that installed it. I know
> that I currently running asterisk 1.4.13 + FreePBX
> 2.9.0.7 on  CentOS 5 x64.
> I need to compile app_mp4 and I've read that I need to compile asterisk from
> source in order to achieve this, does this make any sense ?
> I'm following a tutorial on how to compile app_mp4  at
> http://web.archive.org/web/20090322060930/http://sip.fontventa.com/content/v
> iew/15/44/,
> but I'm afraid to go ahead and lose my current freepbx/asterisk settings.
> I'm pretty new to asterisk, based on this, some of my questions may not the
> the million dollar questions..., basically, what I need is to install the
> app_mp4 and several others apps and make sure the system config (extensions,
> trunks, etc) is preserved.
> any good advises ?
>
> Thank you all,
> regards
> LL
>
>
>
>
> On 12/30/2011 2:21 PM, Doug Lytle wrote:
>> LL wrote:
>>> I need to recompile asterisk to install some apps.
>>> Does anyone has a good tutorial on how to do this
>>  From the statement above, you're giving conflicting information.
>>
>> You first sounded like the installation was compiled from source, but
>> then you're asking for a tutorial on how to compile.
>>
>> If the installation was installed by your distro's package manager,
>> then you won't want to install from source.
>>
>> Can you tell us how it was installed?
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>
>>
>>
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