[asterisk-users] Problem compiling res_fax_spandsp.c on Debian server.

[Ernie Dunbar]

On 2016-02-17 16:28, Richard Mudgett wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Ernie Dunbar <maillist at lightspeed.ca>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 2016-02-17 15:32, Richard Mudgett wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Ernie Dunbar
>> <maillist at lightspeed.ca>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi everyone.
>> 
>> We have an Asterisk server running Debian Squeeze, with Asterisk
>> v1.8.13.1 (basically, the Debian Stable version for Squeeze, but
>> with some minor source code changes specific to our site). We're
>> trying to upgrade to 11.13.1 (The Debian Stable version for Jessie),
>> but I've run into a snag when compiling res_fax_spandsp (and yes, we
>> really need that module). The old version has been working, and was
>> compiled on this same machine with this same operating system. This
>> is the error I get when doing the make:
>> 
>> [CC] res_fax_spandsp.c -> res_fax_spandsp.o
>> res_fax_spandsp.c: In function ‘spandsp_v21_new’:
>> res_fax_spandsp.c:487:52: error:
>> ‘MODEM_CONNECT_TONES_FAX_CED_OR_PREAMBLE’ undeclared (first use
>> in this function)
>> 
>> This is defined by spandsp itself in one of its headers.  Have you
>> installed the spandsp dev package?
>> 
>> Richard
> 
>  Yes, but it's occurred to me that I'm not using the latest version of
> the Debian spandsp-dev package.
> 
> However, at the same time, I'm not exactly compiling the latest
> version of Asterisk 11 either. Is it that big of a deal, or should I
> try to pin the package from the next version of Debian?
> 
> The change that started using the define was made on Dec 28, 2011 to
> improve V.21
> 
> preamble detection.  (Git change
> fdda4947767a5c0ee2424532ff5f01250797175d )
> 
> The spandsp version that compiles on my system is 0.0.6~pre12-1
> 
> Maybe you have remnants of an older version of spandsp still
> installed.
> 
> Richard

Okay, I've gotten it compiled. The problem was that Debian's version of 
libspandsp-dev wasn't the right one. I downloaded and installed the 
latest version found on spandsp's website, and the compile went through 
without any issue.