Re: [Linphone-users] Building linphone-desktop without linphone-sdk

[Raghav Gururajan]

Hi Dennis!

> Great to hear. OpenSuse is on 4.1. The Archies used to package it,
> too, but haven't in some time. Maybe we can reactivate their attempt
> and combine efforts (e.g. maintain common tarball branches). Parabola
> Linux packages a recent, but very barebones version, too.

I see.

> Looking at linphone.scm tells me that you have a lot of work ahead:

Yep! I am reworking the whole linphone.scm.

> * tarballs are no longer offered for many components, so you'll have
> to create them by hand. In Debian we use git-buildpackage, so maybe
> you can use our .orig tarballs.

I am switching to git-fetch, instead of url-fetch.

Btw, I noticed that git://git.linphone.org/foo works for most linphone 
components, but not for lime, liblinphone and linphone-desktop, for which I get 
"not exported or permission denied". So for those I had to use 
https://gitlab.linphone.org/BC/public/foo. Any idea why?

> * you absolutely need soci (with a patch[1] and built with C++11
> support), otherwise linphone will not store instant messages.

Made this change. Thanks!

> * for some components the build scripts try to call "git describe" to
> generate the version strings. We configured with
> -DGIT_EXECUTABLE=/path/to/shellscript.sh that just prints the
> version in the changelog, and that works for us.

I see.

> If you actually pull through, please take notes of what broke how and
> how you fixed it. Debian is currently in the Bullseye freeze
> (probably till June), and we'll resume packaging newer versions not
> long before that ends. Also our current version is in somewhat rough
> shape since the main maintainer had to do it alone and we ran out of
> time.

Sure thing!

Regards,
RG.