mathew on Nostr: Went to see if I could update the Alpine NetHack package for 5.0.0. I've got it ...
Went to see if I could update the Alpine NetHack package for 5.0.0. I've got it building on every platform except RISC-V.
Nethack 5 now tries to download and build Lua for preprocessing its data files, and apparently that fails on RISC-V..
In general, NetHack's build scripts for Linux and macOS could use some serious work, and the Xcode project doesn't even load.
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2026-05-07 18:20:16 UTCEvent JSON
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