Subj : Setting up Husky
To   : Sparky
From : Accession
Date : Sun Jul 18 2021 07:44:27

On 17 Jul 2021, Sparky said the following...
 
 Sp> Your right in that it shouldn't be a big issue but it did...First I
 Sp> started with a gzip/tar file that I uploaded to my debian box and
 Sp> decompressed into a home-fido-husky. Then edited husky.cfg to fit my use
 Sp> and edited fidoconfig.conf. I started the make process as you listed
 Sp> husky.lib, smapi.lib and both went fine then fidoconf kept giving me an
 Sp> error.   So I am going to start from scratch and see what happens. As I
 Sp> have said earlier that lack of good docs has not made this any easier...

Try installing git on your debian box, and cloning the repo. That will give you the latest version of the husky project. Older gzipped or tar packages may not work with newer compilers any more.

huskymak.cfg is the file you edit and put in the root husky directory (make sure if you change directory locations in said file, they actually exist. Don't rename the file, as all other modules look for that file and the settings in it. After that, just go into the huskylib directory and run 'make' and 'make install' without quotes. Once that's done, leave the directory and go to the smapi directory, run 'make' and 'make install'. Then do the same with fidoconf. If you get an error on fidoconf after doing the above, post your error (maybe the last 10 lines of it or so) so we can see what the issue is, please.

That said, I have no idea what fidoconfig.conf is, unless you've renamed it from something else. No file named that resides anywhere in the latest husky sources.

If it all compiles, then you are able to install the modules you want. I recommend this order: areafix, hpt, htick, nltools. Areafix libraries are needed for hpt so should be done first, but if you install hpt without areafix libraries I'm going to assume your areafix functionality won't work if you plan on being any sort of hub. nltools is completely optional, I don't believe I use it here at all, but installed it anyways just in case I ever wanted to check it out.

Let me know how it goes, and good luck!

Regards,
Nick

.... I'd love to help you out.  Which way did you come in?

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