In past releases of NetHack, there was a myriad of different hints
files for different operating systems, and even different versions
of operating systems.
It made maintenance a chore, because all the variable hints files
had to be updated for a wanted change, or (as typically was the
case), some lesser-used hints files were left behind and became
outdated.
Instead of going down that road again, this renames
sys/unix/hints/netbsd.500
to
sys/unix/hints/bsd.500
Where things need to differ for a different bsd flavour,
the differences can be shrouded in things like
.if ${WHICHBSD} == "NETBSD"
.else
.endif
This change is being done to make maintenance easier, at the
cost of making the resulting Makefiles a little more complex,
but there won't be as many separate Makefile hints to maintain.
This commit is being done instead of merging pull request #1531
which would add a new sys/unix/hints/openbsd.500 file.
Only tested on NetBSD so far. Please let us know if there's
an issue on other bsd's, and we will attempt to fix thos issues.
Closes#1531
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