Bug#317108: zaptel-source compile errors

[David Ananian-Cooper]

Cool - thanks - that works

I noticed that the difference is that it uses gcc-3.3 instead of the default 
gcc (gcc version 3.3.5)

Cheers,

David

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:24, you wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:00:32PM +0930, David Ananian-Cooper wrote:
> > Package: zaptel-source
> > Version: 1.0.7-4.1
> > Tags: sarge
> > Severity: serious
> >
> > I have just done a fresh install of sarge on a server of mine. I
> > installed the base packages, then added asterisk, zaptel-source and all
> > its dependancies. I also installed a bunch of library packages which are
> > apparently needed (i forget which ones there were.).
> >
> > I then goto /usr/src, unpack the zaptel.tar.bz2 file and try to compile.
> > It doesn't compile. I get pages full of errors most of which are variants
> > of the following:
>
> Tha's not exactly how you're supposed to build them.
>
>   m-a build zaptel
>
> m-a is module-assistant, and is a dependency of zaptel-source.
>
> Or, as a user (preferably in an empty directory)
>
>   m-a -u . build zaptel
>
> m-a has some insane defaults. I normally use:
>
>   m-a -u . -f -i -t build zaptel
>
> This should give you a better chance of getting the kernel version
> passed correctly to the makefile. The original makefile does a pretty
> bad job at guessing your kernel source tree.
>
> > zaptel.c:5739: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> > or
> > zaptel.c:6107: error: invalid use of undefined type `struct zt_chan'
> > and there are others too
> >
> > looking at the zaptel.c source file, it seems as though many of the
> > errors relate to the static struct zt_chan *chans[ZT_MAX_CHANNELS];
> > variable defined on line 336.
> >
> > When download a fresh 1.0.7 from ftp.digium.com and compile that, I get
> > the same errors. When I download and compile 1.0.9 that works fine.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Clearly there is some problem with the stable package - which I find
> > somewhat surprising given that its meant to be stable and work without
> > any problems!
>
> My own package always built (that is: I always massaged it to building).
>
> The 1.0.7 version is at http://tzafrir.org.il/rapid/
> The current 1.0.9 version is at http://tzafrir.org.il/rapid108/unstable/
>
> > The machine is a P3 933 with 64Mb of RAM (i know - not much - will be
> > getting more soon!!).
>
> Shouldn't matter, as long as you have enough swap.