Asterisk in an Alpine Linux LXC container

(January 2017)

Create the container:

# lxc-create -n alpine-asterisk -t alpine -- -r v3.5
# lxc-start -n alpine-asterisk
# lxc-attach -n alpine-asterisk

Some general setup:

# cat << EOF > /root/.profile
# When using lxc-attach, do "su -" to trigger a login shell that runs .profile.
export PS1='--- \h \w \\$ '
export PAGER='less'
alias l='ls'
alias ll='ls -lah'
alias la='ls -a'
EOF
# apk update
# apk add tzdata s6
# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Detroit /etc/localtime
# echo 'America/Detroit' > /etc/timezone
# apk del tzdata
# rc-update add s6-svscan boot

Compile Asterisk:

# wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-13-current.tar.gz
# apk add build-base ncurses-dev util-linux-dev jansson-dev libxml2-dev sqlite sqlite-dev sqlite-libs bsd-compat-headers 
# cd /src/asterisk-13.13.1/
# ./configure
# make menuselect

Add CORE-SOUNDS-EN-ULAW and CORE-SOUNDS-EN-G722 and MOH-OPSOUND-ULAW and MOH-OPSOUND-G722 and EXTRA-SOUNDS-EN-ULAW and EXTRA-SOUNDS-EN-G722. Then:

# make
# make install

musl patch

If compilation fails with errors about GLOB_NOMAGIC and/or GLOB_BRACE in ‘ael.flex’, save the following as asterisk-13.13.1/musl-glob-compat.patch:

--- asterisk-11.7.0.orig/res/ael/ael.flex
+++ asterisk-11.7.0/res/ael/ael.flex
@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@
 #if !defined(GLOB_ABORTED)
 #define GLOB_ABORTED GLOB_ABEND
 #endif
+#if !defined(GLOB_BRACE)
+#define GLOB_BRACE 0
+#endif
+#if !defined(GLOB_NOMAGIC)
+#define GLOB_NOMAGIC 0
+#endif

 #include "asterisk/logger.h"
 #include "asterisk/utils.h"
Only in asterisk-11.7.0: res/ael/ael.tab.o
--- asterisk-11.7.0.orig/res/ael/ael_lex.c
+++ asterisk-11.7.0/res/ael/ael_lex.c
@@ -838,6 +838,12 @@
 #if !defined(GLOB_ABORTED)
 #define GLOB_ABORTED GLOB_ABEND
 #endif
+#if !defined(GLOB_BRACE)
+#define GLOB_BRACE 0
+#endif
+#if !defined(GLOB_NOMAGIC)
+#define GLOB_NOMAGIC 0
+#endif

 #include "asterisk/logger.h"
 #include "asterisk/utils.h"

And then run before retrying make:

# patch -p1 < musl-glob-compat.patch