Subj : Re: tarball builds complains about .git dir
To   : All
From : nelgin
Date : Tue Jun 10 2025 13:21:05

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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As of right now, Digital Man's linux server appears to have hung again
which means gitlab is offline. This will also affect the wiki and other
bits we rely on.
Of course, you won't see this until it's all working again :)
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