Compiling Asterisk requires Ubuntu source?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Don Kelly wrote:
> I'm making serious progress. Installing the headers made a difference! :)
> 
> I've installed zaptel and libpri successfully.
> 
> Asterisk complains that "termcap support not found."

Someone brought this up a while ago.  There are apparently two options
(neither of which I've tried personally)  You can install
http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/oldlibs/termcap-compat (yes, that's
from Breezy, which is no longer supported).  Or that page says for
compiling "It's as simple as linking with ncurses instead of libtermcap
(i.e. replace the '-ltermcap' with '-lncurses' in the makefile)."  You
could try this.  From the asterisk source directory, run:

rgrep ltermcap *

Replace all these instances with lncurses .

But I think part of the reason you're having these problems is that
you're using the sources from upstream rather than those used for the
Ubuntu package.  See
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-sourcehandling.en.html#s-source

Try:

apt-get source asterisk-classic

This will download the source files.

sudo apt-get build-dep asterisk-classic

This will install the packages needed to build asterisk (if you need to
compile one of these packages yourself do so using this process before-hand)

cd asterisk-1.2.7.1.dfsg

sudo dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b

Unfortunately, this seems to build both asterisk-classic and
asterisk-bristuff (a slightly patched version), and all the docs.  It
will take a while (maybe a half hour).  I don't know how to easily build
just asterisk-classic using this method.

Matt Flaschen