Hi Jack, Hi all, maybe I can give help ... Sorry, that I have not the time to do a HowTo from it, but I'm very busy in research tings in the moment and have almost no time to spend on ASTLINUX...
Kris' astbuild shell file which builds the distro is the MAIN source which shows how to do it, although I personnally must say ithat it is NOT as self-explaining as it *could be* ... If you have a look in the beginning he is defining software versions starting under "# versions. There you will find misdn="mISDN_for_PBX4Linux-3.0.tar.gz" This, as for other modules, is always the name of an archive, which should be stored under ./sources . So, just store your mIDSN archive under ./sources, change the entry in astlinux and build a complete new kernel !!! I personally tested misdn="mISDN-CVS-2006-01-11" with good success, but was changing to active ISDN cards from AVM with chan_capi-cm, which were rockstable. I could *not* say that about mISDN, but I tested no more recent versions of that. If you want to compile e.g. another module, you can simply extract that to ./compile and configure these modules with the hints given here: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/AstLinux+add-on´s If the module have no configure script, then you must change the e.g. $(CC) variables to $(CROSS)$(CC) and put CROSS=i586-unknown-linux-gnu into the beginning of the Makefile. Depending on the makefile you probably have to change the build and target directories manually as well. Otherwise, you have to search th build targets somewhere on your machine and must copy them manually into your ASTLINUX image. When building a new kernel especially for some new piece of hardware make a new CONFIG file for this hardware. Some samples from Kris can be found under ./sources as well, they are used in astbuild here: cp $ASTDEVROOT/sources/$ASTKRN.config $ASTDEVROOT/compile/linux/.config CMD="make oldconfig" ; runcmd (See how ASTKRN will be composed in the script ...) When you name "your" distro you can use this name on the command line of astbuild, it takes your config which have you made in ./compile/linux with "make menuconfig". Therer you can tailor your needs into the kernel. make sure to store your .config under ./sources !!! Well, I hope that gives more than just the direction ;-) ... -- Jürgen >Why not, like I did, take a good old plain Debian Sarge Vmware Image and >use that as your development environment? >It is done in 15 min or so. see ><http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/>http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/ >I am looking for some help with the Astlinux development, where to start, >how to do it. I have it running now with the little information I could find. >I am looking to put the new mISDN package to Astlinux as I hope that would >solve my little unpredictable problem with it. >Anyone ? > >Jack > >2006/2/24, Tom Lynn <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >I thought I posted this before, but I can't find it. How difficult would >it be to put the developement environment into a VMWare image? I don't >have another spare computer hanging around and would like to be able to >compile some of the fax solutions for testing. > >Is this something trivial that I could easily accomplish, or is it best >left to somebody with some experience? > >Tom > >_______________________________________________ >Astlinux-users mailing list ><mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] > > >http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users > >Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >_______________________________________________ >Astlinux-users mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users > >Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
