Environment Tips
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Build tips
Separating binaries from source
This has 3 advantages: easy to start over, easy to see source changes, allows for multiple sets of build settings. To direct output to different directory,
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simply run ./configure script from another directory.
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This is handy when you want to mass delete all build output when you want to start over. Its also handy for creating multiple build with differnent configuration.
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mkdir my-build-output
cd my-build-output
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Faster Builds is ccache
Used ccache when same rebuilding source tree often. For CentOS or Redhat install ccache rpm from dag wiers repository at: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/ccache/. For Fedora use sudo yum install ccache. To enable ccache, add the following settings to your environment before running any make targets
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export CC="/usr/bin/ccache gcc"
export CXX="/usr/bin/ccache g++"
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Rebuilding after editing Makefile.am
If you edit a Makefile.am, you may not have to re-run autoreconf or configure. Built into the Makefile is the ability to regenerate itself, simply run your target as you normally would. If you make a change however that is of improper syntax, you will have to rerun autoreconf and configure
Rebuilding after editing configure.ac
If you want to rerun ./configure command with the same arguments, you can just run ./config.status --recheck && ./config.status
./configure Tips
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Custom location for Openfire
If you have installed the openfire
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in a non standard location (i.e. other than /opt/openfire)
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./configure ... OPENFIRE_HOME=path-to-openfire
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Installing multiple versions of sipxecs
If you plan to install multiple builds, you can direct the installation to a directory other than
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by adding this switch. You can use any directory name
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./configure ... --prefix=/opt/sipx
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Faster configure phase using configure cache
To speed up
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step, this can decrease the time by 40%. You can use any file name
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./configure ... --cache-file=/tmp/ac-cache-file
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Quieter builds
To supress some (but not nearly all) extraneous output make -s
Help on all available make targets
Running make with no targets will return useful list of targets. This is useful if you're unfamiliar with building sipXecs or if you often forget a target name or exact syntax.
Troubleshooting
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- Failed
namedtests If your build reports errors on named related tests, you do not have the nameserver running or your nameserver is mis-configured. In this case edit out the offending tests. - Failed timer related tests If you are running on older harware some of the timer related tests may report errors. Ignore these errors
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