[op25-dev] Re: Repeater Build attempts

[Doug Bade]

I will try to build on CentOS 6.x tonight which in theory I got the farthest
and it has a kernel that should be asterisk friendly as well as GNURadio
friendly. I will  detail the build as far as it gets and what errors I am
unable to resolve myself. I have about 30-40 hours into the project of
trying to build in various forms. I am sorry I did not keep notes on each
failure. I have located some notes on getting zaptel to compile in a base
CentOS system, maybe I can get past that hurdle long enough to get to
asterisk and then GNU radio.

I will provide more concise details when I can get at least something
running that IS a step forward. So far that has not happened.

I can easily get the asterisk part running by using allstar or Xipar.. but
in both cases it is not a GNURadio friendly environment. So I am forced to
build a GNURadio friendly environment and try to get asterisk running. if I
want them on one box and that has been problematical. 

Doug

KD8B

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OK, don't know what we could be doing different in a radical enough way to
blast through this - other than to work patiently on the issues, one at a
time until there is progress. I'm very glad to see that you haven't just
given up. We probably would not be successful to attempt to put out a
"binary" release of anything either, for the same basic reasons you've
already listed.

I run asterisk on a centos-5 system and run gnu radio on various versions if
ubuntu 10 and 11. It may simplify things to separate the two packages and
there is certainly no need to shoehorn everything into a single machine/OS
version. The asterisk component is designed to communicate with the gnu
radio components via UDP whether they're running in the same machine or not.
In general the repeater stuff tries to follow this rule, mostly
successfully.

> I tried several versions of CentOS 5.x , and all result in various modules
> being of incorrect versions available or would not compile. I 

which modules ?

tried CentOS
> 6.x and got closer but failed to compile Zaptel for the reasons stated
> above.
> 
> So if the intent is to allow us to build over a wide array
> of OS's I can say that Isn't going happen. The modules are so critical
that

which modules ?

> have been used that I have yet to find a version that will build.
> 
> So unless someone wants to give some specifics in versions of OS that are
> currently running asterisk as well as op25 as well as GNURadio, I have
been
> thus far unable to find a combination that supports all of them. 
> 
> I tried starting with Allstar and with XiPar and neither has
> support for GUI nor was I able to get a GUI to run, apparently that
process

As previously mentioned, it might be easier to start with the CLI version. I
don't know if the app_rpt stuff even uses the GUI. There may be no benefit
to having a GUI, not sure.

> that maybe tell us what version is in use so we
> can get Zaptel to compile??? If that part fails, the rest is moot. Without
> Asterisk running the repeater part is dead. 

Yeah asterisk is a beast but it really shouldn't be THAT hard to compile.
Zaptel is necessary due to the "dummy" zap channel support that's used
internally. In addition this list isn't necessarily the right forum for
problems compiling asterisk and/or app_rpt - but the problems might be
trivial, so it wouldn't hurt to at least post a few more details here....



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