Subj : tarball builds complains about .git dir
To   : Marco Moock
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Jun 10 2025 22:03:11

  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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