[Telephony] Mandrake Asterisk RPM available

[Scott Petersen]

After having to resolve hardcoded path issues in Asterisk's dependency 
on Zaptel, I have completed the RPM for Mandrake. The issue is that the 
build of Asterisk looks for the zaptel.h file in /usr/include/linux. If 
it can't find it none of the zaptel dependent applications such as the 
conferencing application "MeetMe" will be built. I resolved it by 
modifying all the dependent files prior to the build but it is not a 
very elegant hack. I wish that the Makefiles provided some way to point 
to a particular include directory.

I am only providing the source RPM as the kernel modules need to be 
built against your own kernel. At the moment it is only set to build 
against 2.4 kernels. It may work against 2.6 but it is not tested. I 
haven't even read the readme that describes the 2.6 build process.

This will build three binary rpm's: asterisk, asterisk-zaptel and 
asterisk-zaptel-devel. Please let me know if you have any problems with 
the build as I have a limited number of machines to test on. The more 
reports I get, the better I can make it.

http://www.xaviersolutions.com/asterisk-cvs20040502-1xav.src.rpm

For the time being I would appreciate this URL not being distributed as 
it is currently served from my home machine and I don't want to chew up 
a bunch of bandwidth. If there is interest and I can find a different 
location for it, I will move it there.

Cheers
Scott