[Freeswitch-dev] Help with autotools

[Michael Jerris]

> On May 4, 2017, at 2:34 PM, Alberto Mijares <alberto.m at futurelinkcorporation.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you very much, Michael.
> 
>> 
>> I’d use the scripts, they do everything right.
>> 
> 
> I'd like to, but this is not the right approach when you're writing a
> package within a framework like pkgsrc or the FreeBSD Ports Collection.

There is no reason that should be true.  Please explain what specifically you are having issues with and I should be able to point you in the right direction.

> 
> 
>>> 
>>> pkgsrc has some vars
>>> 
>>> USE_LIBTOOL=    yes
>>> USE_TOOLS+=     automake autoconf gmake perl pkg-config
>>> 
>>> so those tools are installed in the build process as dependencies. What
>>> I can't identify is if pkgsrc knows how to run them accordingly or those
>>> vars are useful only for having preinstalled the tools and using them
>>> within the script.
>> 
>> The script should find them if they are in the path right, if not, you have to set env vars to point to the right version of the tools.
>> 
> 
> Finally, I found that there were some libs missing in the install stage.
> I added the proper commands using libtool --mode=install and the missing
> libs location; working fine now.

Almost definitely NOT the right solution.  Need more info on this.

> 
> The issue I'm having now is about freeswitch being unable to identify
> the network interface addresses, so the daemons refuse to start.

Need more info on this.  Lets create a Jira on this issue please.

> 
> After that, I need to test the package in a Linux system, since I'm
> working on FreeBSD now. I hope to count on you if I need further
> assistance on this subject. I'll be starting another thread if I can't
> solve it.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> Alberto Mijares