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    From Marco Moock@VERT to alt.bbs.synchronet on Mon Jun 9 16:00:43 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

    Hello!

    I am completely new to Synchronet and I want to set it up on Slackware
    for test purposes. Main goal is to have a web interface for certain
    newsgroups.

    I tried to build from the tarballs:

    sbbs@localhost:~/src/sbbs3$ ls ~
    3rdp/ ctrl/ docs/ exec/ install/ install-sbbs.mk node1/ src/ srun320d.tgz ssrc320d.tgz text/ web/ webv4/ xtrn/
    sbbs@localhost:~/src/sbbs3$ SBBSEXEC=/sbbs/exec make symlinks setcap
    fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
    make: *** [targets.mk:150: git_hash.h] Error 128
    sbbs@localhost:~/src/sbbs3$

    Did I do anything wrong?
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  • From Ragnarok@VERT/DOCKSUD to All on Mon Jun 9 14:48:35 2025
    El 9/6/25 a las 11:00, Marco Moock (VERT) escribió:
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

    Hello!

    I am completely new to Synchronet and I want to set it up on Slackware
    for test purposes. Main goal is to have a web interface for certain newsgroups.

    I tried to build from the tarballs:

    sbbs@localhost:~/src/sbbs3$ ls ~
    3rdp/ ctrl/ docs/ exec/ install/ install-sbbs.mk node1/ src/ srun320d.tgz ssrc320d.tgz text/ web/ webv4/ xtrn/
    sbbs@localhost:~/src/sbbs3$ SBBSEXEC=/sbbs/exec make symlinks setcap
    fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
    make: *** [targets.mk:150: git_hash.h] Error 128
    sbbs@localhost:~/src/sbbs3$

    Did I do anything wrong?

    I recommens that just clone the repo (main branch)

    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs.git

    then
    cd src/sbbs3
    make
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  • From nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Tue Jun 10 13:21:05 2025
    On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 14:48:35 -0300
    "Ragnarok" (VERT/DOCKSUD) <VERT/DOCKSUD!Ragnarok@endofthelinebbs.com>
    wrote:
    El 9/6/25 a las 11:00, Marco Moock (VERT) escribió:
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

    Hello!

    I am completely new to Synchronet and I want to set it up on
    Slackware for test purposes. Main goal is to have a web interface
    for certain newsgroups.

    I tried to build from the tarballs:

    sbbs@localhost:~/src/sbbs3$ ls ~
    3rdp/ ctrl/ docs/ exec/ install/ install-sbbs.mk node1/ src/
    srun320d.tgz ssrc320d.tgz text/ web/ webv4/ xtrn/ sbbs@localhost:~/src/sbbs3$ SBBSEXEC=/sbbs/exec make symlinks
    setcap fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent
    directories): .git make: *** [targets.mk:150: git_hash.h] Error 128 sbbs@localhost:~/src/sbbs3$

    Did I do anything wrong?

    I recommens that just clone the repo (main branch)

    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs.git

    then
    cd src/sbbs3
    make
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Marco Moock on Tue Jun 10 22:03:11 2025
    Re: tarball builds complains about .git dir
    By: Marco Moock to alt.bbs.synchronet on Mon Jun 09 2025 04:00 pm

    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

    Hello!

    I am completely new to Synchronet and I want to set it up on Slackware
    for test purposes. Main goal is to have a web interface for certain newsgroups.

    I tried to build from the tarballs:

    sbbs@localhost:~/src/sbbs3$ ls ~
    3rdp/ ctrl/ docs/ exec/ install/ install-sbbs.mk node1/ src/ srun320d.tgz ssrc320d.tgz text/ web/ webv4/ xtrn/ sbbs@localhost:~/src/sbbs3$ SBBSEXEC=/sbbs/exec make symlinks setcap
    fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
    make: *** [targets.mk:150: git_hash.h] Error 128
    sbbs@localhost:~/src/sbbs3$

    Did I do anything wrong?

    Yes, the command line you're invoking is supposed to be run from the src/sbbs3 directory. What instructions are you reading?
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  • From Marco Moock@VERT to alt.bbs.synchronet on Fri Jun 20 20:14:08 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

    On 10.06.2025 22:03 Uhr Digital Man wrote:

    Yes, the command line you're invoking is supposed to be run from the src/sbbs3 directory. What instructions are you reading?

    I was reading https://wiki.synchro.net/install:nix#tarball_build_method

    Although, I now used the git way and have compilation errors. I will investigate and maybe open a new thread here.
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Marco Moock on Fri Jun 20 23:45:42 2025
    Re: Re: tarball builds complains about .git dir
    By: Marco Moock to alt.bbs.synchronet on Fri Jun 20 2025 08:14 pm

    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

    On 10.06.2025 22:03 Uhr Digital Man wrote:

    Yes, the command line you're invoking is supposed to be run from the src/sbbs3 directory. What instructions are you reading?

    I was reading https://wiki.synchro.net/install:nix#tarball_build_method

    From what you pasted, it seems you missed step 5 there:
    cd src/sbbs3

    Although, I now used the git way and have compilation errors. I will investigate and maybe open a new thread here.

    Looking forward to reading it.
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