Ok, was messing with MBSE on Bohdi again last night, but also watching
Witcher, so I wasn't fully concentrating on the install. But I tried on
my Bohdi VM at the office this morning and I am getting the same issue.

So I actually followed the instructions this time, ran the ./SETUP.sh, rebooted, logged in as mbse, had the source tree in /opt/mbse, etc.

'./configure' and 'make' run fine and compiles get done.

When I run 'sudo make install', lines scroll by and eventually I get:

'*** The MBSE_ROOT doesn't exist ***'

Both installs that I've tried it on (laptop and vm) stop at the exact
same spot.

Being a total noob to compiling stuff on linux, I was able to figure
out that it is in the script/installinit.sh. It is doing a check for
$MBSE_ROOT and that's where it fails. But from the command prompt I can
'echo $MBSE_ROOT' and it shows /opt/mbse and /opt/mbse does exist of
course, and it is mbse/bbs owner/group.

I did notice the command in the script/makefile calls ./installinit.sh
with @bash - not sure if maybe it's opening a new shell that doesn't
have the enviroment set maybe?

Here is a longer snippet of the process

Installing support for joe editor
ln -s /usr/bin/joe /usr/bin/bbsjoe
ln -s /usr/bin/joe /usr/bin/bbsjmacs
install -c -o mbse -g bbs -m 0550 editor /opt/mbse/bin
install -c -o root -g root -m 0644 bbsjoerc /etc/joe
install -c -o root -g root -m 0644 bbsjmacsrc /etc/joe
install -c -o mbse -g bbs -m 0750 bbsdoor.sh /opt/mbse/bin/bbsdoor.sh.new install -c -o mbse -g bbs -m 0750 rundoor.sh /opt/mbse/bin/rundoor.sh.new install -c -o mbse -g bbs -m 0750 runvirtual.sh /opt/mbse/bin/runvirtual.sh.new
install -c -o mbse -g bbs -m 0640 doors.bat /opt/mbse/var/dosemu/c
install -c -o mbse -g bbs -m 0500 mbsedos /opt/mbse/bin
*** The MBSE_ROOT doesn't exist ***
make[1]: Leaving directory '/opt/mbse/mbsebbs-1.0.7.24/script'

Let me know what you guys think, I'll probably mess with it again this
weekend. If you have an idea I can test it here while I am work, and
then do it on my laptop later.

Thanks,

Kev

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Ok, I manually added MBSE_ROOT to /etc/environment and rebooted and that worked. Maybe it was setup as a environment for user mbse, but when I sudo it lost that variable?

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Kevin Nunn wrote to All <=-

When I run 'sudo make install', lines scroll by and eventually I get:

Are you running configure and make as the "mbse" user?

Let me know what you guys think, I'll probably mess with it again this weekend. If you have an idea I can test it here while I am work, and
then do it on my laptop later.

It's usually some trivial thing that breaks it all. With FreeBSD, I had to turn off some of the system-level hardening so MBSE would run right. I am trying to hurry to get it set up since I think a hard drive failure is
immenent (sp) on the OS/2 box.

-- Sean

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Kevin Nunn wrote to All <=-

Ok, was messing with MBSE on Bohdi again last night, but also watching Witcher, so I wasn't fully concentrating on the install. But I tried on
my Bohdi VM at the office this morning and I am getting the same issue.

So I actually followed the instructions this time, ran the ./SETUP.sh, rebooted, logged in as mbse, had the source tree in /opt/mbse, etc.

'./configure' and 'make' run fine and compiles get done.

When I run 'sudo make install', lines scroll by and eventually I get:

I installed Bodhi in a VM to diagnose this issue, when using sudo you need
to pass it the -E parameter to make sure it saves the environment variables. So it should look like: 'sudo -E make install'

'*** The MBSE_ROOT doesn't exist ***'

Thanks,

Kev

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MICHAEL DILLON wrote to KEVIN NUNN <=-

I installed Bodhi in a VM to diagnose this issue, when using sudo you
need to pass it the -E parameter to make sure it saves the environment variables. So it should look like: 'sudo -E make install'

Thanks Michael! I will make note of that. Glad it wasn't something I
did wrong :)

Kev


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No problem, just send out a message if anything else comes up.

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