[asterisk-users] Compile of smsq.c failed on Ubuntu Xenial (16.04LTS)

[Ernie Dunbar]

On 2016-07-13 17:09, Ernie Dunbar wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> 
> I'm trying to compile Asterisk with the smsq utility on Ubuntu 16.04
> LTS, and while most things are compiling fine, smsq fails with the
> following output:
> 
> root at test25:/usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/utils# make smsq
>    [CC] smsq.c -> smsq.o
>    [LD] smsq.o strcompat.o -> smsq
> strcompat.o: In function `_ast_malloc':
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:535:
> undefined reference to `_ast_mem_backtrace_buffer'
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:535:
> undefined reference to `ast_log'
> strcompat.o: In function `_ast_calloc':
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:559:
> undefined reference to `_ast_mem_backtrace_buffer'
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:559:
> undefined reference to `ast_log'
> strcompat.o: In function `_ast_realloc':
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:596:
> undefined reference to `_ast_mem_backtrace_buffer'
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:596:
> undefined reference to `ast_log'
> strcompat.o: In function `_ast_strdup':
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:624:
> undefined reference to `_ast_mem_backtrace_buffer'
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:624:
> undefined reference to `ast_log'
> strcompat.o: In function `_ast_strndup':
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:654:
> undefined reference to `_ast_mem_backtrace_buffer'
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:654:
> undefined reference to `ast_log'
> strcompat.o: In function `_ast_vasprintf':
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:694:
> undefined reference to `_ast_mem_backtrace_buffer'
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:694:
> undefined reference to `ast_log'
> strcompat.o: In function `_ast_calloc':
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:559:
> undefined reference to `_ast_mem_backtrace_buffer'
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:559:
> undefined reference to `ast_log'
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:559:
> undefined reference to `_ast_mem_backtrace_buffer'
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:559:
> undefined reference to `ast_log'
> strcompat.o: In function `_ast_realloc':
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:596:
> undefined reference to `_ast_mem_backtrace_buffer'
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:596:
> undefined reference to `ast_log'
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:596:
> undefined reference to `_ast_mem_backtrace_buffer'
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:596:
> undefined reference to `ast_log'
> strcompat.o: In function `_ast_calloc':
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:559:
> undefined reference to `_ast_mem_backtrace_buffer'
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/utils.h:559:
> undefined reference to `ast_log'
> strcompat.o: In function `ast_str_set_va':
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/strings.h:1014:
> undefined reference to `__ast_str_helper'
> strcompat.o: In function `ast_str_append_va':
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/strings.h:1032:
> undefined reference to `__ast_str_helper'
> strcompat.o: In function `ast_str_set_va':
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/strings.h:1014:
> undefined reference to `__ast_str_helper'
> strcompat.o: In function `ast_str_append_va':
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/strings.h:1032:
> undefined reference to `__ast_str_helper'
> strcompat.o: In function `ast_str_set_substr':
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/strings.h:1039:
> undefined reference to `__ast_str_helper2'
> strcompat.o: In function `ast_str_append_substr':
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/strings.h:1046:
> undefined reference to `__ast_str_helper2'
> strcompat.o: In function `ast_str_set_escapecommas':
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/strings.h:1053:
> undefined reference to `__ast_str_helper2'
> strcompat.o: In function `ast_str_append_escapecommas':
> /usr/src/asterisk-certified-13.1-cert7/include/asterisk/strings.h:1060:
> undefined reference to `__ast_str_helper2'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> ../Makefile.rules:163: recipe for target 'smsq' failed
> make: *** [smsq] Error 1
> 
> 
> Years and years of installing binary packages have made my make-fu
> weak, but I've surmised that it's having trouble loading the
> asterisk.h library. To get this far, I modified smsq.h to specify the
> path of asterisk.h to say:
> 
>  #include "../include/asterisk.h"
> 
> But now I get the output we see above. Perhaps there's an easier way
> to make it find the include files it needs?

Through trial and error, I've found the solution by using Certified 
Asterisk v13.8-cert1 instead. It compiled without a hitch!