Re: [gentoo-user] Re: freeSwitch

[Meik Frischke]

Am 2016-04-27 16:12, schrieb James:
> <covici <at> ccs.covici.com> writes:
>
>
>> > How do you install freeswitch, just a raw compile from sources?
>> > Or is there an ebuild somewhere that I   missed?
>
>> I just did the configure, make, make install combination, it by
>> default
>> installs in /usr/local/freeswitch -- even the binaries, so its
>> somewhat
>> isolated.  but check the docs first, you will need some libraries
>> which
>> are not in gentoo and must be gotten from their repository just to
>> build.  I think I had to download and install a dozen packages from
>> source.
>
> Thanks for the info. Did you every file a bug to have an ebuild
> created?
> BGO searching did not find one and freeswitch just seems like a cool
> software to add to gentoo.
>
> Oh, I almost forget to mention:: what caught my eye was that I ran
> across instructions for installation on a Raspberry Pi 2 [1].
> And was wondering if  a larger pbx (ip-switch) could be built
> by clustering Rpi3 devices together?
>
> Lots of projects seem to be centric on Rpi3 clusters these days. [2]
> Thanks again for the feedback.
>
> James
>
> [1]
> http://www.algissalys.com/how-to/freeswitch-1-7-raspberry-pi-2-voip-sip-server
>
> [2] https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/pi-spark-supercomputer/

There is the Freeswitch overlay available [1], also listed here [2], 
which can be added with layman. The provided ebuild is a little outdated 
though (1.6.2 vs currently 1.6.7). It can probably be adapted for the 
current version, but I havn't tried it yet.

Meik

[1] 
https://github.com/alphallc/freeswitch/tree/master/net-voip/freeswitch
[2] https://overlays.gentoo.org/