Subj : FreeBSD BAJA compiling error
To   : Pasta68K
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Jul 15 2023 14:02:35

  Re: FreeBSD BAJA compiling error
  By: Pasta68K to Digital Man on Sat Jul 15 2023 11:42 am

 > Hi Rob, thanks for your reply,
 >
 > I don't know what to say, it's a fresh OS install, I added the dependencies
 > packages listed in the wiki, then cloned the repo from the above link. My
 > only guess is that the FreeBSD env may trigger the anomaly.

Which anomly? My last response to you was regarding this build error you reported:
 > gmake[1]: *** No rule to make target 'cntnodes.bin', needed by 'all'.  Stop.

The cause of which is most definitely some old files in your build tree.

 > I tried compiling from the tarball, but I hit another problem:
 >
 > Linking clang.freebsd..exe.release/umonitor
 > gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/home/sysop/sbbs3/src/sbbs3/umonitor'
 > ln -sfr clang.freebsd..exe.release/* /sbbs/exec
 > ln: illegal option -- r
 > usage: ln [-s [-F] | -L | -P] [-f | -i] [-hnv] source_file [target_file]
 >        ln [-s [-F] | -L | -P] [-f | -i] [-hnv] source_file ... target_dir
 >        link source_file target_file
 > gmake: *** [targets.mk:113: symlinks] Error 1

Using the 'install' instead of the 'symlink' build target should get around that issue.

 > This seems related to FreeBSD's ln version/implementation, missing the
 > option.

Yup, I'll look into if we need the -r option or not there, but you can get around that by not using the 'symlinks' build target.

 > Looks like FreeBSD may be too much of niche in terms of
 > installations/testing? I'd be happy to contribute working on a 32bit VM
 > (mostly to speed up the compiling) but looks like I may have to switch the
 > OS to Debian to at least get things running and get acquainted with
 > Synchronet itself.
 >
 > Thanks again and please let me know if you'd be available/willing to
 > continue investigating the FreeBSD testing together, if here or in other
 > channels, happy to do what I can.

Sure. There are some other sysops already running SBBS on FreeBSD, but always happy to hear of more.
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