[asterisk-users] New Tutorial: Asterisk on EPIA VIA C3

[Darrick Hartman (lists)]

Alan Lord wrote:
> Lenz wrote:
>> Hello list,
>> after spending the best part of an afternoon trying to build Asterisk on  
>> an old EPIA VIA C3, I thought that writing a tutorial would make life  
>> easier for future compilers:
>>
>> http://astrecipes.net/index.php?n=356
>>
>> I had never compiled Asterisk for a different architecture, and I'm pretty  
>> disappointed at how complex it is - building Zaptel, Libpri and Asterisk  
>> requires discovering three different procedures, and even passing the  
>> required architecture to the autoconfig module was not enough for a clean  
>> build - libpthread and libresolv would not link, so you have to add them  
>> manually. Aybody got an idea of who should be notified of this immediate  
>> problem, apart for the time-wasteful general compilation procedure?
>>
>> Thanks
>> l.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I didn't find it too much trouble in a Via C700N system. But I wouldn't 
> use one of the mainstream distros for the OS. They chew up system 
> resources just trying to accommodate "any" hardware.
> 
> The solution is to roll-your-own. See this series of articles on my 
> blog... http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/asterisk/

The C7 supports full i686 features.  The C3 is an older chip that is 
fully i586 and partially i686 compatible.  If you have a distribution 
that is compiled with i586 optimizations, you won't have problems.

Darrick
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