Subj : Test for links etc
To   : Vince Coen
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Mon May 05 2014 05:10 pm

Hello Vince!

05 May 14 15:26, you wrote to me:

 VC> I have been forwarding on problem from another budding mbse user who
 VC> is using ubuntu and who states that the issue he is having also
 VC> applies to Slackware which des not appear to be related to the
 VC> gengoo/ubutu family.

Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian; Slackware's only relation to either is that 
they are both GNU/Linux distributions.

 VC> I am struggling to see what library / headers he is missing that is
 VC> causing the problem with mbindex that is not previously reported with
 VC> configure or make.

I would think if he was missing libraries, there would have been an error 
while building the BBS.

 VC> Ok, I am totally lost on this.

 VC> I was thinking is was related to the nodelist change that removed the
 VC> PVT flag and added '-Unpublished-' for phone number but I am not
 VC> seeing it for 1:1/1 or my own 2:250/1.

The issue I was having occurred with an othernet nodelist, but I noted that 
overriding the node's flags also results in the (null) url field.

 VC> So, do not believe it relates to that.  I still need an instance where
 VC> it is wrong where node flags are not correctly defined in listings in
 VC> someway as shown for the original post but wothout any details.

I am thinking the issue is the code in nodelist.c starting at line 921 which 
builds the connection URL.  I need to trace it through processing a few 
nodelist entries to figure out where the problem is starting.

 VC> So far based on the number of replies I have had it does appear that
 VC> the number of sysops using mbse has shrunk or just have not responded.
 VC> Such is life.

Yep.

Andrew


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