Freeswitch Installation

[Fatman]

Hi everyone,

it has been quite sometime since my last post here but I'm hoping to get back into using freebsd. I've decided to try installing freeswitch and hopefully add fusionpbx afterwards. I will be following the installation instructions found here:
http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Installation_Guide#Linux_and_Unix

A quick glance at the wiki tells me that I do not want to install it via the port since it is for testing only.

Installing via FreeBSD ports collection (TESTING ONLY!): This way all dependencies are downloaded and installed automatically. Currently this port uses freeswitch-1.0.6.tar.gz and not the latest git. For GIT see below.

So since i'm not using the port, I need to install the dependencies which brings me to my first questions.

pkg_add -r autoconf262
 pkg_add -r gcc34
 pkg_add -r automake19
 pkg_add -r git
 pkg_add -r gmake
 pkg_add -r libtool
 pkg_add -r ncurses
 pkg_add -r wget

Am I installing autoconf262 because other packages within freeswitch depend on that version? Or should I use the autoconf port which is autoconf-2.68? It didn't really matter anyways because pkg_add failed with the following message so i will proceed with using the port:

# pkg_add -r autoconf262
Error: Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.2-release/Latest/autoconf262.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.2-release/Latest/autoconf262.tbz' by URL

My next question is regarding the next dependency gcc34. Is this the version I should be installing? I also seem to have a version of gcc installed but I assume this is not the same or too old.

# whereis gcc
gcc: /usr/bin/gcc /usr/share/man/man1/gcc.1.gz
# pkg_info | grep gcc
#

Sorry if these are stupid questions but I'm still a big newb and looking forward to getting back into things.

Cheers.

Fatman

 

[Fatman]

I installed all the dependencies via ports and everything went through smoothly following the wiki steps.

 

[dave]

I am getting the following output when I try to start net/freeswitch after a fresh install via ports on FreeBSD 9

$ sudo service freeswitch start
Starting freeswitch.
Error: stacksize 65536 is too large: run ulimit -s 240 from your shell before starting the application.
auto-adjusting stack size for optimal performance...
1044 Backgrounding.

The service claims to be backgrounding but does not actually start, and there are no relevant logs.

$ sudo -u freeswitch ulimit -s
65536

$ uname -a
FreeBSD freeswitch.local 9.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Jun 12 01:47:53 UTC 2012
root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

Can anyone shed some light on this?