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nethack/sys/unix
nhmall 57f86662fd try harder to have --showpaths succeed
This helps avoid a potential chicken-and-egg scenario
with the system configuration file (sysconf).

If sysconf wasn't accessible at the expected location, it
caused an immediate exit, without relaying any helpful
information. That happened even when using:
    'nethack --showpaths'

That's particularly unhelpful, because the --showpaths
output might have been useful towards understanding where
NetHack was looking for such things.

That left you without an easy recourse to identify where
the game is looking for the sysconf file. That might be
especially troublesome if you didn't build the game
yourself.
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This README provides the instructions for building the unofficial Mac
binaries using the Apple provided developer IDE named XCode.

Establish a developer team in XCode
===================================

Your first step should be to establish a developer team within XCode.
Launch XCode and open the preferences dialog (XCode Menu->Preferences).
Select the "Accounts" tab.  Add an account (usually this should just be
your apple ID account you used to setup the Mac).  After adding the account,
select the account and then add a team (usually this will be just a
personal team for Mac Development).

Obtain your developer team identifier
=====================================

Your DEVELOPMENT_TEAM can be found by opening Keychain Access
(found by Finder->Applications->Utilities).  Click on "My Certificates".
Look for your "Mac Developer" certificate.  Right click on
the certificate to open a dialog that shows certificate details.
Look for "Organizational Unit" among the details.  This ten digit value
is your development team identifier.

Create XCodeLocal.xcconfig file
===============================

Now you need to create the XCodeLocal.xcconfig file that will be used by
XCode to get your development team identifier.  Create the file in
sys/unix and add a single line such as:
DEVELOPMENT_TEAM = XXXXXXXXXX

Where XXXXXXXXXX is replaced with your development team identifier.

Open the project and build
==========================

In XCode open the project file sys/unix/NetHack.xcodeproj, select
the product NetHack and build.  The build results are placed in
~/nethackdir.