[asterisk-users] Explain how to maintain a compiled from source Asterisk instance ?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 04:08:02PM +0100, Olivier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When compiling Asterisk from source, the classical ./configure, make and
> make install commands are issued.
> 
> 
> If a vulnerabilty is found within Asterisk code, then Asterisk source code
> is patched and depending on what files were touched parts or all of above
> commands need to be re-issued.
> 
> What should be done for Asterisk runtime dependencies ?
> 
> Which of the following sentences is or are correct ?
> 
> 1. All Asterisk runtime dependencies are delivered as .so files. Is this
> correct ?

In standard Linux distributions, yes.

> 2. I don't need to re-configure, re-compile or even re-start asterisk when
> a such .so file is updated

Hopefully, not reconfigure / recompile. Generally on properly-maintained
distributions those libraries will change their name (SONAME) if they
have non backward-compatible changes. In such a case you need to
rebuild. This is why there's a number after the .so .

As mentioned before, you need to restart, because otherwise you still
use the original version of the library.

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