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george.joseph at fairv...
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 Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 2:29 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk now available with bundled pjproje |
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The current Asterisk 13 and master git branches have a new feature that will be included in 13.8.0: The ability to compile and run Asterisk with a bundled version of pjproject.
Why would you want to do this? Several reasons:
- Predictability: When built with the bundled
pjproject, you're always certain of the version you're running against, no matter where it's installed.
- Scalability: The default pjproject configuration is optimized for client applications. The bundled version's configuration is optimized for server use.
- Usability: Several feature patches, which have been submitted upstream to pjproject but not yet released, have been included in the bundled version.
- Safety: If a security or critical issue is identified in pjproject, it can be patched and made available with a new release of Asterisk instead of having to
waiting for a new release of pjproject
. - Maintainability: You don't need to build and install separate packages.
- Supportability: When asking others for help, there's no question about which version of pjproject you're using and what options it was compiled with.
- Compatibility: This is especially important from a development perspective because it means we can be sure that new pjproject APIs that have been introduced,
or old ones that have been deprecated,
are handled and tested appropriately in Asterisk.
- Reliability: You can be sure that Asterisk was tested against the bundled version.
So now that you're sold, here's how you use it:
All you have to do is add the "--with-pjproject-bundled" option to your ./configure command line and remove any other "--with-pjproject" option you may have specified. The configure and make processes will download the correct version of pjproject, patch it, configure it, build it and finally link Asterisk to it statically. No changes in runtime configuration are required.
Still not sold? The default behavior hasn't changed so as long as you haven't specified "--with-pjproject-bundled", your build and deploy process remains as is.
PLEASE TRY THIS!! I'd love some feedback BEFORE 13.8.0 is released. |
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george.joseph at fairv...
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2016 5:54 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk now available with bundled pjproje |
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On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Jean-Denis Girard <jd.girard@sysnux.pf (jd.girard@sysnux.pf)> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi,
Le 07/03/2016 09:28, George Joseph a écrit :
| Quote: | PLEASE TRY THIS!! I'd love some feedback BEFORE 13.8.0 is released.
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I have tried GIT-master-ee5a944M on my Fedora 23 test server, and got:
[pjproject] Unpacking /tmp/pjproject-2.4.5.tar.bz2
[pjproject] Applying patches and custom files
[pjproject] Configuring with --prefix=/opt/pjproject
--with-external-speex --with-external-gsm --with-external-srtp
--with-external-pa --disable-video --disable-v4l2 --disable-sound
--disable-resample --disable-opencore-amr --disable-ilbc-codec
--without-libyuv --disable-g7221-codec --enable-epoll
aconfigure: error: Unable to use PortAudio. If PortAudio development
files are not available in the default locations, use CFLAGS and LDFLAGS
env var to set the include/lib paths
Makefile:57: recipe for target 'build.mak' failed
make: *** [build.mak] Error 1
failed
So I installed portaudio-devel (it was not needed before), and then
compilation / installation were ok. When restarting Asterisk, SELinux
blocked an access to /usr/bin/portaudio.
Can't we simply disable portaudio? I have changed --with-external-pa to
--disable-pa in third-party/pjproject/Makefile.rules, and it seems to
compile / work fine.
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Good catch on PortAudio. I'll add the --disable-pa,
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I have a question for servers without Internet access : is it enough to
copy pjproject-2.4.5.tar.bz2 to /tmp or will there be other dependencies?
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No other dependencies. Putting it in /tmp should be fine.
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I made a couple of test calls without problem (with or without portaudio).
Thanks for your work,
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Thanks for testing!
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lists at binarus.de
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| Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 3:31 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk now available with bundled pjproje |
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On 07.03.2016 20:28, George Joseph wrote:
| Quote: | The current Asterisk 13 and master git branches have a new feature that will be included in 13.8.0: The ability to compile and run Asterisk with a bundled version of pjproject.
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PLEASE TRY THIS!! I'd love some feedback BEFORE 13.8.0 is released.
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This is one of the best ideas you could have. Especially with Debian as the underlying distribution, the default libraries are quite old in many cases. I had to download and compile recent versions of pjsip, spandsp and a bunch of other libraries before being able to compile and use recent Asterisk versions.
The other arguments you have named (safety and so on) are equally important.
Since I have begun using Asterisk, I even have wished you could bundle *all* external libraries and components that way (just dreaming - I think there are several dozens or even hundreds of them).
Regards and thanks,
Recursive
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cursor at telecomabmex...
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| Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 12:19 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk now available with bundled pjproje |
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On 2016-03-13 02:30, Recursive wrote:
| Quote: | On 07.03.2016 20:28, George Joseph wrote:
| Quote: | The current Asterisk 13 and master git branches have a new feature
that will be included in 13.8.0: The ability to compile and run
Asterisk with a bundled version of pjproject.
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PLEASE TRY THIS!! I'd love some feedback BEFORE 13.8.0 is released.
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Right now I use the install_prereq script to install PJSIP
dependencies and I have automated the process. Will you be removing the
PJSIP related dependencies from this script to avoid conflitcs with the
new included version?
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george.joseph at fairv...
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| Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 10:49 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk now available with bundled pjproje |
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On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 1:30 AM, Recursive <lists@binarus.de (lists@binarus.de)> wrote:
| Quote: | On 07.03.2016 20:28, George Joseph wrote:
| Quote: | The current Asterisk 13 and master git branches have a new feature that will be included in 13.8.0: The ability to compile and run Asterisk with a bundled version of pjproject.
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PLEASE TRY THIS!! I'd love some feedback BEFORE 13.8.0 is released.
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This is one of the best ideas you could have. Especially with Debian as the underlying distribution, the default libraries are quite old in many cases. I had to download and compile recent versions of pjsip, spandsp and a bunch of other libraries before being able to compile and use recent Asterisk versions.
The other arguments you have named (safety and so on) are equally important.
Since I have begun using Asterisk, I even have wished you could bundle *all* external libraries and components that way (just dreaming - I think there are several dozens or even hundreds of them).
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Thanks for the feedback!
Yep, there are a number of them and it wouldn't be practical to include them all. The reason pjproject made sense to bundle was that it's a highly complex and very specific library that we depend on. In fact, Asterisk references almost 500 different pjproject functions or data structures. 
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george.joseph at fairv...
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| Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2016 10:54 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk now available with bundled pjproje |
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On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Carlos Chavez <cursor@telecomabmex.com (cursor@telecomabmex.com)> wrote:
| Quote: | On 2016-03-13 02:30, Recursive wrote:
| Quote: | On 07.03.2016 20:28, George Joseph wrote:
| Quote: | The current Asterisk 13 and master git branches have a new feature that will be included in 13.8.0: The ability to compile and run Asterisk with a bundled version of pjproject.
[...]
PLEASE TRY THIS!! I'd love some feedback BEFORE 13.8.0 is released.
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Right now I use the install_prereq script to install PJSIP dependencies and I have automated the process. Will you be removing the PJSIP related dependencies from this script to avoid conflitcs with the new included version? |
Good question. I'm going to remove the code in install_prereq that downloads and installs it from source this week. I'll leave the package install for a while. At least until there's good acceptance of the change.
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