Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!apple!flaig
From: flaig@Apple.COM (Charles Flaig)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Nethack patches, 2nd set
Message-ID: <3787@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 22 Aug 89 19:20:53 GMT
Reply-To: flaig@apple.com (Charles Flaig)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In the 2nd set of Nethack patches, there are lines added to the Makefile that
look like:

    sed -e 's;/usr/games/lib/hackdir;$(GAMEDIR);' \

Now, pardon me for mildly flaming, since this is a wonderful game, and I really
appreciate the work that goes into it, but what the **** is an absolute path
doing in the middle of the Makefile without being assigned to a commented
variable, like GAMEDIR is???

Now, you can call me stupid, but I don't have the slightest idea how to use
sed, and I don't know what it is supposed to do with this path, and what the
path should actually be on my system, since of course I don't *have* the
directory /usr/games/lib/hackdir!  I've changed them all to other things....
(I think this is the same one called "GAMEDIR", but then why wasn't this used?)

Please!  What do I do with this monster???

--Charles
  flaig@apple.com
(Also known as a poor confused user, playing at being a system manager.)