Re: [gentoo-user] Re: freeSwitch

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

>  <covici <at> ccs.covici.com> writes:
> 
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> > > https://freeswitch.org/
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> > > Folks interested in an ebuild for this software?
> 
> > I use it all the time on gentoo, but watch out for its dependencies. 
> 
> Good to know.
> 
> 
> > I had to downgrade ffmpeg to 2.72 before I could get fs to compile and
> > they are not interested in supporting gentoo.  Their development systems
> > are Debian Jessie.
> 
> 
> How do you install freeswitch, just a raw compile from sources? 
> Or is there an ebuild somewhere that I   missed?

I just did the configure, make, make install combination, it by default
installs in /usr/local/freeswitch -- even the binaries, so its somewhat
isolated.  but check the docs first, you will need some libraries which
are not in gentoo and must be gotten from their repository just to
build.  I think I had to download and install a dozen packages from
source.


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