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+#
+# NetHack 3.6  linux $NHDT-Date: 1432512814 2015/05/25 00:13:34 $  $NHDT-Branch: master $:$NHDT-Revision: 1.12 $
+# Copyright (c) Kenneth Lorber, Kensington, Maryland, 2007.
+# NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details.
+#
+#-PRE
+# Linux hints file
+# This hints file provides a single-user tty build for Linux, specifically
+# for Ubuntu dapper.
+
+
+#PREFIX=/usr
+PREFIX=$(wildcard ~)/nh/install
+HACKDIR=$(PREFIX)/games/lib/$(GAME)dir
+SHELLDIR = $(PREFIX)/games
+INSTDIR=$(HACKDIR)
+VARDIR = $(HACKDIR)
+
+
+POSTINSTALL=cp -n sys/unix/sysconf $(INSTDIR)/sysconf; $(CHOWN) $(GAMEUID) $(INSTDIR)/sysconf; $(CHGRP) $(GAMEGRP) $(INSTDIR)/sysconf; chmod $(VARFILEPERM) $(INSTDIR)/sysconf;
+
+CFLAGS=-g3 -O0 -I../include -DNOTPARMDECL -fno-common
+CFLAGS+=-DDLB
+CFLAGS+=-DCOMPRESS=\"/bin/gzip\" -DCOMPRESS_EXTENSION=\".gz\"
+CFLAGS+=-DGCC_WARN -Wall -Wextra -Wformat
+CFLAGS+=-Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wunused -Wswitch -Wshadow -Wwrite-strings
+CFLAGS+=-pedantic -Wstringop-truncation -Wunused-result -Wunreachable-code
+CFLAGS+=-Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wimplicit-int
+CFLAGS+=-Wno-format-nonliteral -Wno-missing-field-initializers
+CFLAGS+=-Wno-format-overflow -Wno-stringop-overflow
+CFLAGS+=-DSYSCF -DSYSCF_FILE=\"$(HACKDIR)/sysconf\" -DSECURE
+CFLAGS+=-DTIMED_DELAY
+CFLAGS+=-DHACKDIR=\"$(HACKDIR)\"
+CFLAGS+=-DVAR_PLAYGROUND=\"$(HACKDIR)/var\"
+CFLAGS+=-DCONFIG_ERROR_SECURE=FALSE
+CFLAGS+=-DCURSES_GRAPHICS
+CFLAGS+=-DPANICLOG_FMT2
+CFLAGS+=-DTTY_TILES_ESCCODES
+CFLAGS+=-DEDIT_GETLIN
+CFLAGS+=-DSCORE_ON_BOTL
+CFLAGS+=-DDGAMELAUNCH
+CFLAGS+=-DLIVELOG_ENABLE
+CFLAGS+=-DDUMPLOG
+CFLAGS+=-DDUMPHTML
+CFLAGS+=-DTNNT_BETA
+# server location - comment out the ones that don't apply
+CFLAGS+=-DSERVER_LOCATION=\"au.hardfought.org\"
+#CFLAGS+=-DSERVER_LOCATION=\"eu.hardfought.org\"
+#CFLAGS+=-DSERVER_LOCATION=\"us.hardfought.org\"
+
+LINK=$(CC)
+# Only needed for GLIBC stack trace:
+LFLAGS=-rdynamic
+
+WINSRC = $(WINTTYSRC) $(WINCURSESSRC)
+WINOBJ = $(WINTTYOBJ) $(WINCURSESOBJ)
+WINLIB = $(WINTTYLIB) $(WINCURSESLIB)
+
+# if TTY_TILES_ESCCODES
+WINSRC += tile.c
+WINOBJ += tile.o
+
+WINTTYLIB=-lncurses -ltinfo
+
+CHOWN=true
+CHGRP=true
+
+GAMEUID=games
+GAMEGRP=bin
+
+VARDIRPERM = 0755
+VARFILEPERM = 0600
+GAMEPERM = 0755