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    From Jeff Smith@VERT to Digital Man on Monday, August 19, 2019 15:23:22
    Hello Digital,

    Re: Updating Synchronet
    By: Jeffs to All on Mon Aug 19 2019 12:23 pm
    Hello There,

    In attempting to do a fresh install of SBBS on a new install of Ubuntu
    v19.4. I get the following response when running make:

    "No rule to make target 'cntnodes.bin', needed by 'all'. Stop."

    This is after following the non-cvs instructions:


    # wget ftp://vert.synchro.net/Synchronet/sbbs_src.tgz
    # wget ftp://vert.synchro.net/Synchronet/sbbs_run.tgz
    # tar -xzf sbbs_src.tgz
    # tar -xzf sbbs_run.tgz
    # cd /sbbs/src/sbbs3; make RELEASE=1
    # cd /sbbs/xtrn/sbj; make
    # cd /sbbs/exec
    # ln -s ../src/sbbs3/gcc.*.exe.release/* .
    # ln -s ../src/sbbs3/*/gcc.*.exe.release/* .
    # make

    When I run the make statement I get the "No target" response mentioned above

    So there are 3 "make statements" in the list of instructions above. Which gave
    you "No target"?

    The last make statement resulted in the no target response.

    The last make is in the exec directory and that's where the "cntnodes.bin" error would've come from. Most likely, because the earlier make in src/sbbs3 failed to build. That make must succeed before you can continue on with the remaining steps.

    I didn't notice any errors as a result of the two previous make statements.

    My hope was to end up with a current (Daily) install of Synchronet.
    If I do a CVS install then Synchronet will install but the executables will >> not be current (As in newest).

    I don't follow. Getting the source from CVS is actually *newer* than getting i
    from the tgz files which are only updated nightly, at the most frequent.

    That was my initial assumption also. But did some reading on the subject and noticed dialog on people updating the SBBS modules individually.

    Previously (About a month ago) I did a CVS install of Synchronet on the Ubuntu PC and it installed v3.17b. Which included SBBSECHO v3.06. My plan was to update
    SBBSECHO, Etc to the current v3.08? version(s).

    Not sure, but I suspect you need to rerun this line:
    cd /sbbs/src/sbbs3; make RELEASE=1
    ... before you can run "make" in exec.

    I have since did a restore of the SBBS root directory which restored Synchronet
    to a functioning v3.17b. I will try the SBBS install again on another spare Ubuntu PC that I have here. And will let you know the good/bad results.

    Jeff

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