add CRASHREPORT for Windows
add ^P info to report (via DUMPLOG)
new options: crash_email, crash_name, crash_urlmax
new game command: #bugreport
new config option: CRASHREPORT_EXEC_NOSTDERR
new command line option: --bidshow
deleted helper scripts:
NetHackCrashReport.Javascript
nhcrashreport.lua
misc:
update CRASHREPORTURL (will need to be updated before release)
update bitrot in winchain
winchain for Windows
add missing synch_wait for NetHackW --showpaths
add PANICTRACE (and CRASHREPORT) in mdlib.c:build_opts
missing:
packaging (Windows needs the pdb file)
no testing with MSVC command line build
port status:
linux: working, but glibc's backtrace doesn't show static functions
Windows VS: working. pdb file is large - looking into options
MacOS: working
msdos: not supported
VMS: not supported
MSVC: planned, but not attempted
MSYS2: working, but libbacktrace not showing symbols (yet?)
Add distinct potential steps into Makefile.top for putting
sysconf into place, instead of appending the steps for doing so
to the generic POSTINSTALL.
SYSCONFINSTALL is used for 'make install' and unconditionally
copies sys/unix/sysconf to the install directory.
SYSCONFENSURE is used for 'make update' and only copies
sys/unix/sysconf to the installation directory if it doesn't
already exist.
The initial trigger for revisiting this was because of new reports
that cp from (GNU coreutils) 9.4 is now issuing a warning during
NetHack builds. The warning pertains to deprecated use of the '-n'
switch with cp, which is used to only copy the file if the target
does not exist.
After this update, the shell is used to make that determination,
and if the file doesn't exist, cp is now invoked on Linux without
the '-n' switch.
For the macOS hints file, macOS.370, cp wasn't being used for sysconf
anyway, a utility script was being invoked and this doesn't change
that. macOS.370 was updated to remain in sync with linux.370 and
Makefile.top regarding the use of SYSCONFINSTALL and SYSCONFENSURE.
In the rare event that
make fetch-lua
is not working because the primary Lua site is not available,
provide another target
make fetch-lua-mirror
that uses the official lua mirror site documented at:
https://www.lua.org/mirrors.html
add a 'distrib' target to the top level Makefile so that the
distribution doc/*.txt files can be created via 'make distrib'
from the top directory. It utilizes the existing 'distrib'
target in the doc/Makefile.
Have hints/linux.370 specify the correct directory for Linux
man pages of /usr/share/man/man6, so that 'sudo make manpages'
works on that platform,
When calling panic() or impossible(), create the option
of opening a browser window with most of the fields
already populated. Code for MacOS and linux is included;
other ports are affected by argument change to early_init
which are done but not tested.
To enable, define CRASHREPORT in config.h and set
CRASHREPORTURL in sysconf to (for the moment at least)
http[s]://www.nethack.org/common/contactcr.html
Adds --grep-defined option to makedefs for Makefiles.
Adds "bid" (binary identifier), an MD4 of the main nethack
binary. This is ONLY for helping (in the future) contact.html
to set the "NetHack from" field automatically for our own
binaries. This can be faked, but the user can lie so nothing
lost. There's nothing magic about MD4; other ports can use
anything that prodcues a long apparently random string we can
match against.
- new option --bidshow for us to get the MD4 of a
released binary so I can add it to the website.
Only available in wizard mode and not in nethack.6.
- typo macos -> macosx in hints file
No support for packaging builds as I'm not sure what that
would look like.
Adds a javascript helper for MacOS.
Adds a lua helper for linux (and builds and installs
nhlua).
Instead of just plain old boring mazes, spice up Gehennom by
occasionally adding lava, iron bars, or even mines-style levels
(with lava, of course).
Of the fixed Gehennom levels, only Asmodeus' lair has been changed
to add some random lava pools.
Also some lua fixes and changes:
- Fixed a selection negation bounding box being wrong.
- Fixed a selection negated and ORed returning wrong results.
- des.map now returns a selection of the map grids it touched.
- When using des.map contents-function the commands following the
map are not relative to it.
Write up a description of how the command line works on UNIX and put
that in new file dat/usagehlp. Add support for
|nethack --usage | --help | -? | ?
to display it and exit.
Also add a menu entry for nethack's help command to show it during
play. That can be suppressed by uncommenting new '#define HIDE_USAGE'
in config.h since it won't be useful on servers that don't give
players access to command lines.
New genl_display_file() just writes to stdout. opt_usage(), which
calls it, might need some suid/sgid handling to make sure the output
is done as the player rather than as nethack.
doc/nethack.6 is already out of date again.
Allow the hints file to apply a correct timestamp to
the Guidebooks prior to use.
Detect the NH_DATESUB in the Guidebook.mn or Guidebook.tex
files and replace the datestamping line that follows.
If git is available, it determines the hash of the last commit
applied to doc/Guidebook.mn, and then determines the date of
that commit. The interim Guidebook.dated.mn (or
Guidebook.dated.tex) gets the datestamp applied.
If git isn't available or doesn't correctly provide the hash
for doc/Guidebook.mn, it should just continue to use whatever
hard-coded date in the Guidebook.mn source file (it uses it
instead of the interim file).
observed: parallel build attempts of makedefs that trampled over
one another.
attempted workaround: Add a dependency as per Pat R's suggestion.
observed: Concurrent header file movement collisions were sometimes
causing file busy errors and build failures.
workaround: Eliminate tile.h header file movement from the
Makefile build so that the collisions won't occur with that
particular file. Leave the header file tile.h in win/share as it
is in the distribution and just adjust the include path in the
rule for the specific files that use it.
observed: tiletxt.c created on-the-fly from Makefile echo statements
sometimes resulted in garbled and duplicate content in it when
parallel makes were involved, and that caused a build failure.
workaround: Instead of creating a tiletxt.c on-the-fly via echo
statements in the Makefile, simplify things and use that
same #include "tilemap.c" approach but make it an actual file
in the distribution. That makes it available for other platforms
too.
Log game events, such as entering a new dungeon level, breaking
a conduct, or killing a unique monster, in a new "Major events"
chronicle. The entries record the turn when the event happened.
The log can be viewed with #chronicle -command, and the entries
also show up in the end-of-game dump, if that is available.
This feature is on by default, but can be disabled by
defining NO_CHRONICLE compile-time option.
This also contains "live logging", writing the events as they
happen into a single livelog-file. This is mostly useful for
public servers. The livelog is off by default, and must be
compiled in with LIVELOG, and then turned on in sysconf.
Mostly this a version of livelogging from the Hardfought server,
with some changes.
Move the help text for the 'O' command from the code into its own file
and allow that to be accessed from the '?' menu as well as by choosing
entry '?' in the 'O' menu.
sys/unix/Makefile.top has been updated to handle new 'optmenu', others
need to catch up. The game will still build and run without the file
but asking for options menu help won't work until they do.
% make spotless
% sh sys/unix/setup.sh sys/unix/hints/macOS.2020
% make fetch-Lua
worked, but the last ended with
|rm include/nhlua.h
|rm: include/nhlua.h: No such file or directory
|make: [fetch-Lua] Error 1 (ignored)
which might frighten skittish users (like me). Check whether the
constructed header file exists (so is assumed to be for an earlier
Lua version) and only delete it in that case. No more scary report
of benign failure when it isn't there (after 'make spotless' or for
brand new source setup).
Also, some time ago we came to the conclusion that 'if [ ]' was an
extension for GNU 'bash' and wouldn't work with some older actual
'sh' implementations. This replaces the one post-3.6 instance of
|if [ ! -d foo ] then bar; fi
in Makefile.top with
|if test -d foo; then true; else bar; fi
Testing was successful but done with bash rather than an old sh. :-}
On some platforms this may require:
make spotless
make fetch-lua
I did attempt to force a reminder message about the latter to
Makefile.top this time, and hope that works correctly for everyone.
Revise Makefile.top to remove the obsolete commands which change
the last modified date of save and bones files during 'make update'.
Using file dates to validate save files against nethack hasn't been
useful for many years.
Also, update assorted comments.
Adds possible callbacks for "start_new_game", "restore_old_game",
"moveloop_turn", and "game_exit" which when defined, will be called
from core code at the appropriate time.
Adds lua hooks for dump_fmtstr (only if DUMPLOG), dnum_name, u.moves,
u.uhave_amulet, and u.depth.
Provide a reasonably straightforward way to leave lua alone when
changing git branches (which I precede with 'make spotless').
make clean-keep-lib
and
make spotless-keep-lib
are new alternate forms of top level 'make clean' and 'make spotless'
that won't touch lib/lua/.
Add a missing update to sys/unix/Makefile.top. Makefile.dat
only requires that tiles2bmp exist, without knowing anything
about whether it needs to be rebuilt. So force Makefile.top to
make sure that it's up to date, similar to how tiles2x11 gets
handled.
I've been ignoring submodules so far. For the old method of
dealing with lua, the instructions
You might need to do
make spotless
make fetch-lua
aren't adequate. They should be
When lua version has changed in Makefile.top, before running
setup.sh to put that new Makefile in place, do
make spotless
then
sys/unix/setup.sh [hints/...]
make fetch-lua
otherwise it will try to clean up the not yet fetched new lua
version instead of the old one.
