[asterisk-users] Where are the fax instructions?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 01/06/2012 12:54 PM, José Pablo Méndez Soto wrote:
> Kevin,
>
> I rolled back clean my virtual asterisk testbed and instead of
> libspandsp2 and libspandsp-dev, I installed libtiff4 - libtiff4-dev and
> downloaded/compiled spandsp 0.0.6, then I fixed the libraries with
>
> echo "/usr/local/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/spandsp.conf
>
>
> cuz it wasn't able to load the module at all. Now it does but still
> can't see any reference to gateway support.
>
>
> Installed Asterisk 10 package, ./configure proves good spandsp support:
>
>
> checking for minimum version of SpanDSP... yes
> checking for span_set_message_handler in -lspandsp... yes
> checking spandsp.h usability... yes
> checking spandsp.h presence... yes
> checking for spandsp.h... yes
> checking for t38_terminal_init in -lspandsp... yes
> checking for spandsp.h... (cached) yes
>
>
> I  decided to give 10.0 a try since res_fax_spandsp is included in the
> native code right? (if that even has any sense). It now shows:
>
>
> CLI> fax show capabilities
>
> Registered FAX Technology Modules:
>
> Type            : Spandsp
> Description     : Spandsp FAX Driver
> Capabilities    : SEND RECEIVE T.38 G.711 GATEWAY
>
> 1 registered modules
>
> I would consider this one solved but could you please throw some insight
> as to why 1.8.8.0 and 1.8.7.1 fail to build the gateway support?

Asterisk 10 is the first version that includes T.38 gateway support.

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