[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on FreeBSD 4.9?

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 14 January 2004 11:15, Chris Albertson wrote:
> The way to get this work done is in steps.  Some of these
> steps will help everyone.  This is good as the more people
> a step helps the more likely it is to get done.
>
> 1) First priority.  Make a GNU "Autotools" build system for
>    Asterisk.  Thiat is one that uses a ./configure script
>    There is a patch or "asterisk versin that
>    does this already.  Priority #1 is to get this tested
>    and into CVS.  It is an absolute pain in the but to
>    support multiple platforms with this.  And the work
>    is already done, except for testing and CVS checkin

It's not going to happen, as it is right now.  What is needed is an
Asterisk developer, not just a user, who has committed code to
the project and is actively involved with its maintenance and
development who Mark can trust to stay with the project to maintain
the autoconf/automake stuff.

Unless this happens (not just a Johnny-come-lately who hasn't
contributed a line of code), you're not going to see autoconf/automake
in Asterisk.  This is the primary stumbling block to
autoconf/automake, not any technical reason but purely pragmatics.

What this means is, if you haven't contributed any code back to
Asterisk and you want to see autoconf/automake, you need to become
an active developer of the project before such changes will even be
considered.

-Tilghman