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  • Husky compile problems

    From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to JEGOR on Thu Feb 26 09:59:05 2026
    build.sh keeps abending.
    make: *** No rule to make target 'huskylib//home/bbs/husky/gnmsgid.c'
    So I set GNMSGID=0 in huskymak.cfg & ran it again.
    make: *** No rule to make target 'fidoconf//home/bbs/Husky/obj/afixcmd.o'
    I am starting to wonder if maybe the makefiles I pulled from github
    are busted?
    I am following the instructions in the huskybse INSTALL.asciidoc on a debian linux stable system.
    Is there a trick to this?

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

    Yes, I made the requested path changes. I will include them below.

    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

    I have all of these.

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

    And finally: sudo make install

    Did all of those except the last one since build.sh kept failing.

    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'

    I will try this next.

    Here are the other changes that I made to the huskymak.cfg. I am only
    changing the one in ~/husky and not the many huskymak.cfg datasets in any of the directories below it:

    # A subdirectory for the source files
    _SRC_DIR=/home/bbs/husky

    # A subdirectory for the files created during the build BUILDDIR=/home/bbs/Husky

    # A subdirectory for object files
    OBJDIR=${BUILDDIR}/obj

    # A subdirectory for generated dependency makefiles
    DEPDIR=${BUILDDIR}/dep

    # Prefix for all installation directories
    # Set to your homedir if you have no root privilegies
    PREFIX=/home/bbs/Husky

    # Where to put dynamic libraries (*.so files) when DYNLIBS=1.
    # You should take care that this directory is listed in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
    # environment variable (if necessary, modify your /etc/profile file). Some
    # 64-bit operating systems use ${PREFIX}/lib here.
    LIBDIR=/home/bbs/lib64

    # Where to put programs.
    BINDIR=${PREFIX}/bin

    # Where to put manual pages. If you comment this out, no manual
    # pages will be produced.
    MAN1DIR=/home/bbs/share/man/man1
    MAN3DIR=/home/bbs/share/man/man3
    MAN5DIR=/home/bbs/share/man/man5

    # The fidoconfig config file will be in this directory:
    CFGDIR=/home/bbs/Husky

    # Filename (without path) for the config file (default: config)
    #CFGNAME=config

    # Name of the config file of MSGED TE:
    MSGEDCFG=\"$(CFGDIR)/msged.cfg\"

    # If you have a working texinfo installation (consisting of the "makeinfo"
    # and "install-info" programs) and do not comment out the following setting,
    # it will cause GNU info documentation to be built and installed into the given # directory.
    INFODIR=/home/bbs/share/info

    # A directory for documentation in HTML, TXT, DVI, PDF formats.
    # If you comment it out, no documention in these formats will be produced and
    # you won't know how to use the software ;-).
    DOCDIR=/home/bbs/share/doc/husky

    Mike


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  • From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to Jegor on Thu Feb 26 11:26:45 2026

    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'

    OK I tried that. Still got the same error:

    make: *** No rule to make target 'huskylib//home/bbs/husky/gnmsgid.c', needed by 'huskylib//home/bbs/Husky/obj/gnmsgid.o'. Stop.

    However, adding '-j 1' after build.sh forced it not to run jobs in parallel, so it stopped looking for something that wasn't built yet and this error went away.

    I got some other errors on my path statements, which I was able to fix in huskymak.cfg.

    It seems now to have built everything. I will test it later. Thanks!

    Mike
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  • From Jegor@21:3/228 to Dumas Walker on Thu Feb 26 18:28:44 2026
    Hello Dumas!

    26 Feb 26 09:59, Dumas Walker wrote to JEGOR:

    Here are the other changes that I made to the huskymak.cfg. I am
    only changing the one in ~/husky and not the many huskymak.cfg datasets in any of the directories below it:

    # A subdirectory for the source files
    _SRC_DIR=/home/bbs/husky

    # A subdirectory for the files created during the build BUILDDIR=/home/bbs/Husky

    I believe relative paths are expected for these two parameters, not the absolute ones. That could be the reason you're getting weird paths like 'huskylib//home/bbs/husky/gnmsgid.c'. Did you try leaving the default values for _SRC_DIR and BUILDDIR?

    Regards,
    Jegor

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