[asterisk-users] What is bootstrap.sh for ? Possible bug in 11.3.0 ?

[Olivier]

2013/5/7 Matthew Jordan <mjordan at digium.com>

> On 05/06/2013 05:54 PM, Olivier wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Before trying to script res-memcached installation (see res_memcached
> > <https://github.com/drivefast/asterisk-res_memcached>), I banged into
> > this on a fresh 11.3.0 setup:
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> > My questions are:
> >
> > 1. What is the purpose of bootstrap.sh ?
> > 2. Is this a bug or a feature ?
> >
>
> 1. bootstrap.sh generates the configure script for Asterisk. It's there
> to help with platform compatibility issues, as well as to make sure the
> configure file is built with all of the macros defined in the various
> .m4 files in Asterisk's autoconf sub-directory.
>

Thanks for this explaination.



>
> 2. It appears as if you're running a modified version of Asterisk, in
> which case all bets are off. This works fine on the Linux build agents,
> which is what we use to build the tarballs on downloads.asterisk.org.
> So, no, I don't think there's a bug in the shell script.
>

I can reproduce this behaviour at will on a fresh new untouched asterisk
11.3.0 install on a debian squeeze (see
ASTERISK-21760<https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-21760>
)
Would you say that for a given asterisk version, included configure script
should match the one generated by bootstrap.sh ?




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