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     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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