Developed for 3.6 but deferred to 3.7. Most of the testing was with
the earlier incarnation.
Report was that pronouns were accurate for the underlying monsters
when hallucination was describing something random, and also that the
gender prefix flag from bogusmon.txt wasn't being used. The latter
is still the case, but pronouns are now chosen at random while under
the influence of hallucination. One of the choices is plural and an
attempt is made to make the monster name and verb fit that usage.
|The homunculus picks up a wand of speed monster.
|The large cats zap themselves with a wand of speed monster!
|The blue dragon is suddenly moving faster.
There is no attempt to match gender for the singular cases; you might
get
|The succubus zaps himself [...]
or
|The incubus zaps herself [...]
Unix Makefile.utl wasn't aware of the dependency of makedefs.o on
src/mdlib.c so didn't rebuild makedefs when it should have.
Eliminate several warnings:
mdlib.c - #if inside the arguments to macro Sprintf();
nhlua.c - nhl_error() ends with a call to lua_error() which doesn't
return, but neither of them were declared that way;
nhlsel.c - because of the previous, the 'else error' case of
l_selection_ellipse() led to complaints about uninitialized
variables;
sp_lev.c - missing 'const'.
I did minimal testing which went ok, but revisiting a couple of levels
gave me un-freed memory allocated by restore.c line 1337. (I haven't
looked at that at all.)
This is similar to the helm of opposite alignment case fixed some
time ago. Deferring the setting of foo->known until an item is fully
worn (because it used to get set earlier but gave away information if
the wear operation was interrupted) didn't take into account that foo
might end up Null in various circumstances. So Boots_on() needs to
validate uarmf before setting uarmf->known in case putting on boots
of levitation while on a sink caused them to come right back off.
I put similar validation into all foo_on() just in case (as far as
I'm aware, only Boots_on() and Helmet_on() actually need that).
I think the previous expression would allow moving (via swapping
places) from a pool to solid rock or closed door which was not what
was intended (but moot since there aren't any pools on the Astral
level). This revised expression does what is intended: can only
swap to a pool location if already located in/over (the Riders fly?
they should probably be non-breathing) another pool.
Some support of new code #defines to faciliate cross-compiling:
OPTIONS_AT_RUNTIME If this is defined, code to support obtaining
the compile time options and features is
included. If you define this, you'll also have
to compile sys/mdlib.c and link the resulting
object file into your game binary/executable.
CROSSCOMPILE Flags that this is a cross-compiled NetHack build,
where there are two stages:
1. makedefs and some other utilities are compiled
on the host platform and executed there to generate
some output files and header files needed by the
game.
2. the NetHack game files are compiled by a
cross-compiler to generate binary/executables for
a different platform than the one the build is
being run on. The executables produced for the
target platform may not be able to execute on the
build platform, except perhaps via a software
emulator.
The 2-stage process (1. host, 2.target) can be done
on the same platform to test the cross-compile
process. In that case, the host and target platforms
would be the same.
CROSSCOMPILE_HOST Separates/identifies code paths that should only be
be included in the compile on the host side, for
utilities that will be run on the host as part of
stage 1 to produce output files needed to build the
game. Examples are the code for makedefs, tile
conversion utilities, uudecode, dlb, etc.
CROSSCOMPILE_TARGET Separates/identifies code paths that should be
included on the build for the target platform
during stage 2, the cross-compiler stage. That
includes most of the pieces of the game itself
but the code is only flagged as such if it must
not execute on the host.
If you don't define any of those, things should build as before.
One follow-on change that is likely required is setting the new dependency
makedefs has on src/mdlib.c in Makefiles etc.
More information about the changes:
makedefs
- splinter off some of makedefs functionality into a separate file
called src/mdlib.c.
- src/mdlib.c, while included during the compile of makedefs.c
for producing the makedefs utility, can also be compiled
as a stand-alone object file for inclusion in the link step
of your NetHack game build. The src/mdlib.c code can then
deliver the same functionality that it provided to makedefs
right to your NetHack game code at run-time.
For example, do_runtime_info() will provide the caller with
the features and options that were built into the game.
Previously, that information was produced at build time on the
host and stored in a dat file. Under a cross-compile situation,
those values are highly suspect and might not even reflect the
correct options and setting for the cross-compiled target
platform's binary/executable. The compile of those values and
the functionality to obtain them needs to move to the target
cross-compiler stage of the build (stage 2).
- date information on the target-side binary is produced from
the cross-compiler preprocessor pre-defined macros __DATE__
and __TIME__, as they reflect the actual compile time of the
cross-compiled target and not host-side execution of a utility
to produce them. The cross-compiler itself, through those
pre-defined preprocessor macros, provides them to the target
platform binary/executable. They reflect the actual build
time of the target binary/executable (not values produced
at the time the makefiles utility was built and the
appropriate option selected to store them in a text file.)
- most Makefiles should not require adding the new file
src/mdlib.c because util/makedefs.c has a preprocessor
include "../src/mdlib.c" to draw in its contents. As previously
stated though, the Makefile dependency may be required:
makedefs.o: ../util/makedefs.c ../src/mdlib.c
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
