[asterisk-users] Zaptel / Asterisk on Solaris

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Saturday 04 December 2010 15:19:55 RR wrote:
> Anyway, coming back to the point, so are you saying that I should try
> trunk or 1.8 instead of mucking around with 1.6x versions? Sorry I have
> got back to Asterisk after almost 3 years, so haven't kept up with
> where I should be going and is it better to stick with 1.6x or just go
> to 1.8 as there's no upgrades or backward compatability requirements
> for me.

Well, for example, prior to 1.8, the build simply ignores any paths that
you provide, as to --prefix or any other paths.  We've changed that in the
1.8 release, so that you no longer need to edit the Makefile if you don't
want to use the paths that someone, sometime, decided were the right paths
in which Asterisk should reside on Solaris.  Of course, if you don't use
any prefix arguments, it will continue to use those same paths; they
function merely as the defaults.

I'm sure you could run Asterisk on Solaris as far back as pre-1.0, although
how often this was broken is anybody's guess.  We're trying to make it more
compatible and automatic as far as finding standard paths, but when
something does not work, the best thing for you to do is to post a
reflection of the issue on https://issues.asterisk.org, as well as what you
did (if anything) to fix it.  Then, as time permits, we'll look at making
that contribution portable to multiple platforms, to benefit everybody.  The
goal, of course, is for you to need to make no tweaks whatsoever, other
than preferential arguments to the configure script, and Asterisk should
just build.

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