From 6aed21933d7e87148c8f42341512202994fc2f34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nhmall <nhmall@nethack.org>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2026 13:33:35 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add paragraph about README.hints to NewInstall.unx

---
 sys/unix/NewInstall.unx | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sys/unix/NewInstall.unx b/sys/unix/NewInstall.unx
index fe1ebaf83..9ced987c1 100644
--- a/sys/unix/NewInstall.unx
+++ b/sys/unix/NewInstall.unx
@@ -155,6 +155,10 @@ additional interfaces. See below.
 |          |       |                 |  qt6-multimedia-dev                  |
 +----------+-------+-----------------+--------------------------------------+
 
+There are other hints file options that are meant to impact your NetHack build
+in various other ways too. A reference list can be found in
+sys/unix/README.hints. 
+
 # NetHack 5.0  NewInstall.unx       $NHDT-Date: 1652276817 2022/05/11 13:46:57 $  $NHDT-Branch: NetHack-5.0 $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.11 $
 # Copyright (c) 2009 by Kenneth Lorber, Kensington, Maryland
 # NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details.