Subj : FreeBSD BAJA compiling error
To   : Pasta68K
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Jul 17 2023 15:54:21

  Re: FreeBSD BAJA compiling error
  By: Pasta68K to Digital Man on Sun Jul 16 2023 03:03 pm

 > Thanks a lot Rob for the help,
 >
 > >Do you have the file repo/exec/cntnodes.src?
 >
 > >Is the BAJAPATH above valid? You pasted a path with double-dots ('..') here
 > earlier that looked suspect.
 >
 > I do not have right now that repo folder on disk to check cntnodes.src, but
 > I recall checking and while the compiler was looking for the "
 > .exec.release", on my filesystem I had " ..exec.release" which got me
 > puzzled as well.

Yeah, and that's likely the root issue.

 > >It sounds like you're not able to build the exec/*.bin files (built with
 > Baja).
 >
 > I'm now confused as the tarball ended compiling without errors and so far I
 > was able to run the BBS config and console, even creating the sysop user.
 >
 > I don't mean to create confusion if this is unrelated, but just to clarify,
 > I'm not having compiling errors (I think), I'm able to run exec/sbbs and
 > when connected (telnet) to the BBS from a terminal emulator often a red
 > error line on screen saying "!ERROR executing yesnobar" appears, while I can
 > see the console log showing:
 > "!ERROR 2 (No such file or directory) in exec.cpp line 791 (exec_bin)
 > executing "yesnobar" access=0 info=module doesn't exist"
 >
 > Is this possibly still related to BAJA?

Yes.

 > At this point, if the GIT is correct and hits a BAJA issue (but the tarball
 > successfully compiles?) I'm starting wondering if my Pentium III processor
 > may be missing some feature needed?

No. When you built from the files cloned from the git repo, you most likely (definitely) used install/GNUmakefile, which also builds (makes) exec/*.bin using exec/GNUmakefile. And when you built using the files from the tarball, you most likely used src/sbbs3/GNUmakefile, which does *not* build/make the exec/*.bin files automatically.

 > I put together this retro machine to run
 > DOS BBS software, but I eventually realized Synchronet is much more
 > powerful... still it's good having access to FDDs and SCSI card, as I can
 > read/write media from many of my old computers, so I opted to simply run a
 > newer OS on the P3.

I don't think the P3 is the issue.
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