[asterisk-users] Step-by-Step Asterisk and MeetMe Help

[Jimmy Ezell]

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>[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Tzafrir
>Cohen
>Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 12:21 PM
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>Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Step-by-Step Asterisk and MeetMe Help
>
>
>On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:11:40AM -0700, Jimmy Ezell wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
>> >[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Tzafrir
>> >Cohen
>> >Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:03 AM
>> >To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> >Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Step-by-Step Asterisk and MeetMe Help
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>> >
>> >On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 05:26:21PM -0700, Jimmy Ezell wrote:
>> >
>> >> make[2]: Entering directory 
>> >`/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-78.0.13.EL-smp-i686'
>> >
>> >You seem to be using RHEL4.7 or Centos 4.7 . 
>> >
>> >Is this a new installation?
>> >
>> >-- 
>> >               Tzafrir Cohen
>> 
>> Centos 4.7 and yes I installed this new for this Asterisk project.
>> 
>> Jimmy
>> http://qvlweb.blogspot.com/2009/04/asterisk-pbx-install-index.html
>
>This is the latest version of Centos4. However, why would you use
>Centos4 on a new installation?
>
>If you want Centos, go with Centos 5 (now at 5.3).
>
>You install bison, which is no longer required to build Asterisk.
>
>You install Zaptel, but DAHDI is now the "latest version of Zaptel".
>Zaptel is now frozen and has not been updated for quite some time.
>
>You set the /usr/src/linux-2.4 symlink , which is a pointless old piece
>of woodoo. Can you point me to the place in the documentation that
>pointed you to it?
>
>(Not to mention that the whole messing with kernels is so bad 
>in Centos.
>It is not better in SUSE, where you have to install the full kernel
>source to build Zaptel / DAHDI)
>
>
>Next: no need to run 'make clean' before running ./configure. It is
>mearly pointless.
>
>'make menuselelct' is something you normally don't need to run, unless
>you know you want to remove things. In other words: don't let it
>needlessly complicate your installation instructions.
>
>-- 
>               Tzafrir Cohen





I am using the Asterisk book, as it is the closest thing I have found to a detailed step-by-step howto for Asterisk. http://cdn.oreilly.com/books/9780596510480.pdf.  This is the version (CentOS 4.7) of the software they use in the book. (see page 41)

>You set the /usr/src/linux-2.4 symlink , which is a pointless old piece
>of woodoo. Can you point me to the place in the documentation that
>pointed you to it?

Page 45 of the book says you can use this link to point to a kernel that is in a non-standard place.  While I was sure I did not do anything non-standard (after all I was just following the book), I was having problems with the make commands not being able to find the kernel files, so I used this command to point to where I thought it should go for kernel files.

Thanks for the comments about not needing bison, and 'make clean' and 'make menuselect" during normal install.

I see that there are some outdated things in the book but I would not have gotten nearly this far without it.  My goal is to update in my blog what is needed to make it work as a starting point for clueless people like myself.

Jimmy