[asterisk-users] Installing Asterisk to it's own directory

[Jose P. Espinal]

Hi Stephen,

That's what people do when building precompiled packages for certain 
distros (along with a few more things).

I use to do the following when building packages (with a few more options):

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
make
make install DESTDIR=/my/destination/directory

That would create the complete installation structure under 
'/my/destination/directory'


Regards,



Stephen Brown wrote:
> I'd like to start playing with 1.8, however I don't want to potentially 
> damage anything on my existing 1.6.2 install on my production server.
>
> I'd like to test 1.8 against my existing configs leaving my 1.6.2 
> install untouched. Looking at the output of ./configure --help suggests 
> that it's possible to install Asterisk into another prefix of my 
> choosing, but as this is unfamiliar territory to me I'm not exactly sure 
> how to accomplish this?
>
> Ideally, I'd like to just dump the newly compiled 1.8 and all it's 
> dependencies into a standalone directory (say /testing/asterisk or 
> something) and update my init script to point to the new binaries. I 
> also run a Sangoma USB FXO card and DAHDI for a POTS line that I would 
> like to test as well, should it work with the pre-compiled binaries that 
> are already there? (DAHDI, etc)
>
> I've never tried this before, and before I potentially break something 
> I'd like to know if it's possible and how to implement it?
>
> Thanks,
> Stephen
>
>
>   

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