[Asterisk-Users] Build on Itanium fails

[Jonas Arndt]

Hi Rollin,

I am using SuSE's SLE 9.0, which is built for Itanium. The compiler 
works for other 32 and 64 bits applications. There could still be a 
problem with my environment though. I have not excluded that.

I can make it compile if I exclude the GSM codec. Now, how will that 
affect the functionality? I know, I would know that if I learned more 
about the product.

I agree that there could be a scenario where you, as a programmer, could 
cause a segmentation fault by incorrectly using pointers that were never 
initialized because of a problem in an external file (not existing or 
syntax errors). I also agree that you as a programmer could cause 
segmentation faults by incorrectly trying to communicate with hardware 
that is not there. All those scenarios are bugs though. They should be 
avoided by proper error control and handling. Still, those are bugs I 
can live with as long as I have my stuff together when it comes to build 
it on Itanium. If it comes out that the coredumps are indeed caused by 
bad config files, it would be really good news to me, as I really want 
to use the Itanium hardware. I did try make samples and there is no 
difference, it still segfaults

I will now dig into the compilation options and the link I got from Jose 
to see if I can find anything useful. When I have a successful build 
without coredumps I will focus on learning the product. From what I have 
seen so far it seems to be a really cool product.

Thanks for all the help,

// Jonas

Rollin Weeks wrote:

> One must keep in mind that the config files specify how hardware is to 
> be handled.
> If config files are present, the defaults in them are adequate to keep 
> really bad
> things from happening.  If not . . . . . .
> By the nature of this beast, it can easily seg fault if hardware 
> drivers don't have
> proper controls.  I had seg faults several times WITH config files 
> until I got the
> parameters right.  I did not consider that a huge bug, but rather part 
> of my learning
> curve with asterisk.
>
> As far as the compile problem with the Itaniam system, are you sure 
> you have a
> compiler version that fully supports this hardware/OS combination?
>
> Rollin Weeks
>
>
> On 8/9/05, *Jonas Arndt* <jonas_arndt at comcast.net 
> <mailto:jonas_arndt at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>     Ben,
>
>     This is an enormous help. This is exactly what I was looking for.
>
>     THANKS,
>
>     // Jonas
>
>     Asterisk wrote:
>
>     >Jose,
>     >
>     >It might help to have a look at the debian SOURCE package for
>     Asterisk.
>     >Here is the Debian DIFF File
>     >http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/asterisk/asterisk_1.0.7.dfsg.1-2.diff.gz
>
>     >
>     >They've obviously been successful in compiling it for Itanium -
>     maybe something obvious will jump out.
>     >I wish I had time to look it over myself, as I'd normally be
>     happy to help, but unfortunately, today I'm just too busy.
>     >
>     >Best Regards
>     >Ben
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >>>As they have build Debian packages for Itanium I was hoping that
>     >>>somebody would have experience with compiling on Itanium and could
>     >>>give me some pointers.
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >
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