[Asterisk-Users] Trying to clarify ideas about spands, libtiff & FC4

[Derek Whitten]

Haven't had any issues here with slackware 10.x


On Sunday 23 October 2005 09:23 am, Carlos Alperin wrote:
> I spent more than 3 weeks, with some little help of people that belongs to
> this forum, and after try differents combinations of versions this is my
> conclusion:
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> I tried RH9, FC4 & FC4 64
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> I tried with CVS 1.0.2, and Stable 1.0.9
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> I tried with spandsp 0.0.2pre18, 0.0.2pre20 & 0.0.2pre21
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> Libtiff 3.5.7 & libtiff devel 3.5.7
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> Libtiff 3.7.1 & libtiff devel 3.7.3 (I couldn't find 3.7.1)
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> My conclusion is:
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> If I need to be able to use fax with Spandsp, app_rxfax.c & app_txfax.c
> with libtiff 3.5.7 (and libtiff devel 3.5.7) there is no way to do that on
> FC4 (get conflict with GTK2+)
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> So it looks like I have to go back to RH9 and at least upgrade to kernel
> 2.4.31, and try again.
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> This is under the presumption that Spandsp, & the rest are going to work.
> (Looking at the forum, that is not a 100% fact).
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> It should be a way to save us a lot of time, if somebody can unify all the
> requeriments on each OS, so we can decide before to start which direction
> to follow.
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> The reason for RH9 & FC4 is because they're more familiar. But if someone
> can show me a working configuration, I don't hesitate to move the platform.
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> By the way, the 64 bits platform still looks to be very unstable and not so
> fast to implement with Asterisk.
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> To the digium support: I understand that your recommendation is to go to
> 2.6 kernel, but if I need to run spandsp, how to do that without libtiff
> 3.5.7.
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> The general experience is libtiff 3.7.1 locks the asterisk when the machine
> boots.
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> Please feel free to send every kind of disappointments opinions. That is
> going to feel me much better that no answers.
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> (Even if you can show me how stupid I was doing all kind of mistakes)
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> Regards,
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> Carlos Alperin

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