The directories and permissions portion of the linux.500 and macOS.500
hints files and their included files has been consolidated to
dirs-perms.500.
The builder can edit that one file now, to identify
the folders that will be utilised as part of the build.
Alternatively, you can set those folders and permissions in a
make.perms file in the top of the NetHack folder tree and
they should take precedence over the ones in dirs-perms.500
because dirs-perms.500 uses '?=' variable assignment, which
means "set the value of the variable if no value has been set."
* NOTE: BUILD CHANGE *
This also makes WANT_SOURCE_INSTALL=1 the default over
WANT_SHARED_INSTALL=1, if neither is explicitly set.
The new default is the safer and less-impacting default,
but it will change where things get installed over earlier
Makefile builds. You can be explicit with WANT_SHARED_INSTALL=1
in your make command to get that..
These are the differences between the two:
make WANT_SHARED_INSTALL=1 Place the results of the install/update portion
of the build into a shared area on a multiuser
system.
make WANT_SOURCE_INSTALL=1 Place the results of the install/update portion
of the build into a subfolder of the source
tree, rather than in a system-wide shared area.
Also note that the macOS hints file behaves slightly differntly depending
on whether WANT_SOURCE_INSTALL=1 was set versus letting it be the default.
That's not new, it behaved that way before.
nhmall
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