[Buildroot] asterisk works in buildroot?

[Buildroot] asterisk works in buildroot?

[Makis Tsimaras]

Hello everyone.

I try to build an asterisk system for an Alixd1 board with Buildroot but i
can't so far.

I read the docs and i tried to include the asterisk-1.4.29 into the building
by following the instructions.
It actually worked and when i copied the image into a CF card, and boot the
Alixd1 board with..., i could see the asterisk binary in the /sbin
directory.

The problem is while i could start it and also connect to the asterisk CLI
prompt with "asterisk -rvv",... i couldn't see the service at all with the
"netstat" command from inside the Alixd1 board,  and also with "nmap" from
an external host,....while at the same time i could scan and use other
service daemons like SSHD and VSFTPD.

Maybe i miss something but this is where im now.

My question is that is the "depends on BROKEN" line in the
"package/multimedia/asterisk/Config.in" means that asterisk cannot compile
and work with Buildroot at all?


Is there anyone who successfully compiled asterisk with Buildroot?
I would appreciate any help please.
Thank you anyway.
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[Buildroot] asterisk works in buildroot?

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello Makis,

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:58:07 +0200
Makis Tsimaras <tsigian@gmail.com> wrote:

> My question is that is the "depends on BROKEN" line in the
> "package/multimedia/asterisk/Config.in" means that asterisk cannot
> compile and work with Buildroot at all?

It was marked BROKEN because it was known not to work and nobody was
working on getting it working. As it was marked BROKEN since a long
time, Peter Korsgaard (Buildroot maintainer) recently removed asterisk
from the list of available packages.

However, this does not mean that Asterisk cannot be built at all with
Buildroot. It just means that someones needs to make the integration.
So you have basically two choices:

 1) Do the work by yourself if you have the skills and the time.

 2) Hire a consultant with expertise in Buildroot to do the
    integration. It happens that I'm both a Buildroot developer and a
    consultant :-)

Cheers!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] asterisk works in buildroot?

[Michael S. Zick]

On Thu February 11 2010, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello Makis,
> 
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:58:07 +0200
> Makis Tsimaras <tsigian@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > My question is that is the "depends on BROKEN" line in the
> > "package/multimedia/asterisk/Config.in" means that asterisk cannot
> > compile and work with Buildroot at all?
> 
> It was marked BROKEN because it was known not to work and nobody was
> working on getting it working. As it was marked BROKEN since a long
> time, Peter Korsgaard (Buildroot maintainer) recently removed asterisk
> from the list of available packages.
> 
> However, this does not mean that Asterisk cannot be built at all with
> Buildroot. It just means that someones needs to make the integration.
> So you have basically two choices:
> 
>  1) Do the work by yourself if you have the skills and the time.
> 
>  2) Hire a consultant with expertise in Buildroot to do the
>     integration. It happens that I'm both a Buildroot developer and a
>     consultant :-)
> 

Yeah, except then the work would be a "work for hire" and the property of
whoever pays your fee - not an improvement to the open source Buildroot system.

Such "improvements" and "integrations" might well take years before the owner
released the work for inclusion into Buildroot.

One of the legal and ethical problems faced by any "loss leader" OSS project
used to promote the commercial agenda of private development firms.
Buildroot is hardly the first to try that idea.

Mike

> Cheers!
> 
> Thomas

[Buildroot] asterisk works in buildroot?

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:49:04 -0600
"Michael S. Zick" <minimod@morethan.org> wrote:

> Yeah, except then the work would be a "work for hire" and the
> property of whoever pays your fee - not an improvement to the open
> source Buildroot system.

Depends on the conditions of the contract between the consultant and
its customer. It could well be that the consultant only accepts to work
for the customer if the parts of the work that consist in modifications
to existing open source components can be contributed back to the
community. This is how we usually work at Free Electrons and customers
usually understand this pretty well: because we can leverage the
community help during our work, we work faster, which means a smaller
cost for the project.

> One of the legal and ethical problems faced by any "loss leader" OSS
> project used to promote the commercial agenda of private development
> firms. Buildroot is hardly the first to try that idea.

Definitely, the interaction between commercial companies and open
source communities is sometimes complicated due to sometimes diverging
interests. But there are companies much more focused on community
cooperation than others, IMO.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] asterisk works in buildroot?

[Nicholas Walton]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Makis Tsimaras <tsigian@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I try to build an asterisk system for an Alixd1 board with Buildroot but i
> can't so far.
>
. . .
>
> Is there anyone who successfully compiled asterisk with Buildroot?
> I would appreciate any help please.
> Thank you anyway.

There are some reports of success using the AVR32 NGW100, as well as a
project for the Blackfin STAMP.

http://www.avrfreaks.net/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=76016
http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/asterisk/

[Buildroot] asterisk works in buildroot?

[Makis Tsimaras]

> However, this does not mean that Asterisk cannot be built at all with
> Buildroot. It just means that someones needs to make the integration.
> So you have basically two choices:
>
>  1) Do the work by yourself if you have the skills and the time.
>
>  2) Hire a consultant with expertise in Buildroot to do the
>     integration. It happens that I'm both a Buildroot developer and a
>     consultant :-)
>

Thank you very much for answering to my question Thomas,..
However i wish i could hire you to help me but myself am not going to make
any money out of this.

Any ADVICE is welcome anyway :)

I can tell you what i did to check it out if you like to.


thanks in Advance
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