Build bsdgames from source

Many of the games are disabled by default on Ubuntu. But we can enable some games and build from source with:

apt-get source bsdgames
cd bsdgames-*
sed -ri '/^bsd_games_cfg_no_build_dirs=/s/ number / /' config.params
./configure
make -j

Here we enabled the game number, so now we can:

number/number 123

which gives:

one hundred twenty-three.

We can also "install" it locally with:

make install

which puts the games locally under:

debian/bsdgames/usr/games/number

which you can add to your PATH environment variable.

Tested on Ubuntu 24.04, bsdgames 2.17.

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