[Asterisk-Dev] asterisk (less hardware) ported to FreeBSD

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Saturday 02 August 2003 11:16, Jim Mercer wrote:
> i've ported asterisk to FreeBSD without hardware support.
> work is moving forward on a BSD ztdummy driver.

Good work.

> in the process of the porting, i've found a number of instances where
> there were un-initialized variables and various cosmetic changes,
> which are OS independent issues.

I'd be interested to see where these are; in most places where the
compiler warns of "possibly uninitialized" variables, it is, in fact,
getting set, just elsewhere.

> then there are a number of "adjustments" to make the stuff compile on
> FreeBSD.

Why not just create an entry in the FreeBSD ports tree with your
modifications?

> and i have some ideas about making the build process a little less
> linux specific (ie. putting configs in /usr/local/etc/asterisk or
> other user defined location).

The location for the configuration files is configurable in the
Makefile, so it can be customized per installation.  Note that the
placement of configuration files in /usr/local/etc is not less Linux-
specific; in fact, it's FreeBSD-specific.  And, before you call me a
Linux-nazi, note that my email client is running on a FreeBSD desktop.

> i am not comfortable with CVS update privileges, and i wonder if an
> existing developer could take me under their wing, and submit my
> patches on my behalf?

Go to http://bugs.digium.com and submit a bug report, with your patch.
Unified diffs (cvs diff -u) are the patch format recommended.

-Tilghman