Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] building latest ekiga master

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Eugen Dedu <eugen dedu univ-fcomte fr> wrote:
> On 29/04/15 11:04, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I thought I'd try to build the latest ekiga dev on Fedora 22 to see
> > how it looks (and add a copr build [1] for other interested people)
> > but I was stumped at the first hurdle.
> >
> > It seems between ptlib 2.10.x and 2.14.x the build system was changed
> > around quite a lot and has issues on regular distro style packaging
> > where things like install directory are specified and don't work any
> > more. They also use things like old config.guess/config.sub dating
> > back to 2003 so most new architectures are missing too. I didn't have
> > much time to spend but overall it seems like some regressions in the
> > newer ptlib/opal side of things so I thought I'd just give people a
> > heads up.
>
>
> Thanks a lot for trying!
>
> Could you be more specific about what "install directory" does not work?
> Here on debian ptlib and opal package and install fine.  One note: you need
> to use "make opt" in ptlib and opal in order for plugins to be installed
> too.

It's the same mechanism used to build 2.10 and all preceding releases
for years, as it looking at the git logs from the first release we
used in Fedora back to when it changed name from pwlib to ptlib back
in 2008.

> What exactly version of ptlib/opal have you tried (also: release or branch)?

ptlib 2.14.3