[OpenIndiana-discuss] asterisk, was Re: [UNSUBSCRIBE]

[Marc Lobelle]

On  7/06/13 15:42, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 06/07/2013 06:36 AM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>>> If your purpose is to provide a distribution with an up to date illumos at
>>> its core and the
>>> applications everybody expects on desk/lap-tops easily installable, then I
>>> consider your
>>> work as a really important and I would be ready helping you to live of it.
>>> But make it possible to easily install all available applications, whether
>>> provided by openindiana,
>>> opencsw or yourself directly. One of the missing ones seems to be asterisk,
>>> by the way.
>>>
>> asterisk?
>>
>> Now that things seem to be more in the direction of gcc, you'll get asterisk
>> eventually. The main problem with getting asterisk on Solaris was that its
>> code made a lot of use of gcc'isms that Sun Studio CC does not handle.
>>
>> Do you need hardware support or just asterisk itself with sip support?
>    I worked as a contractor for Digium several years ago, with the task of
> porting Asterisk to Solaris on SPARC using Sun Studio.  I got it mostly
> working; the changes required weren't really all that bad.
>
>    At some point, apparently internal politics at that company made things go
> down the wrong path, and they basically stopped communicating with me.  Never
> paid me, either.  As far as I know, the code was never integrated into the
> main Asterisk codebase.
>
>    My next task was to tackle the device drivers for their hardware, but
> obviously things never got that far.
>
>                  -Dave
>
I tried to compile it some time ago with gcc on solaris just in case it worked; it didn't , but it 
was on an old solaris 10 and I hadn't time to look deeper into it. There are also versions compiled 
for solaris on the web. They do not work either.

It would be nice to have on openindiana.

Marc