Subj : Husky compile problems
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Jegor
Date : Wed Feb 25 2026 23:56:20

Hello Dumas!

25 Feb 26 13:14, Dumas Walker wrote to All:

 DW> build.sh keeps abending.
 DW> make: *** No rule to make target 'huskylib//home/bbs/husky/gnmsgid.c'
 DW> So I set GNMSGID=0 in huskymak.cfg & ran it again.
 DW> make: *** No rule to make target 
 DW> 'fidoconf//home/bbs/Husky/obj/afixcmd.o'
 DW> I am starting to wonder if maybe the makefiles I pulled from github 
 DW> are busted?
 DW> I am following the instructions in the huskybse INSTALL.asciidoc on a 
 DW> debian linux stable system.
 DW> Is there a trick to this?

Did you make any changes to huskymak.cfg besides GNMSGID=0 ?

I've just compiled Husky on a fresh debian-stable installation without any issues.

sudo apt install git make gcc g++ libperl-dev libmodule-build-perl \
 libtest-simple-perl zlib1g-dev libncurses-dev texinfo

Then:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huskyproject/huskybse/master/script/init_build
chmod 755 ./init_build
../init_build
cd ~/husky
../build.sh

And finally: sudo make install

The errors make me think there's something wrong with your building environment, so you might also wanna try building on a clean one using:

env -i HOME="$HOME" PATH="$PATH" TERM="$TERM" USER="$USER" \
      bash -c 'cd ~/husky && ./build.sh'

Regards,
Jegor

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