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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