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From: tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Nethack patches, 2nd set
Message-ID: <3186@deimos.cis.ksu.edu>
Date: 23 Aug 89 05:41:07 GMT
References: <3787@internal.Apple.COM>
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Reply-To: tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey)
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In article <3787@internal.Apple.COM> flaig@apple.com (Charles Flaig) writes:
>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???

This sed command replaces all instances of "/usr/games/lib/hackdir" with
whatever you have defined GAMEDIR to be.  What it all boils down to is this
is how the nethack.sh script is tailored to your system.

>Now, you can call me stupid,

:-)  Naw, I'll pass.

[ ... ]

Tim
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