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

 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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