[quake2] revamped build system

[Brendan Burns]

I agree, I've never seen -( ... -) before.
You learn something new every day...

Thanks!
--brendan

On Sep 19, 2004, at 1:40 PM, Thomas J Fogal wrote:

>  <414DBCD9.2050000 at asfandyar.cjb.net>Asfand Yar Qazi writes:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Putting all object files on the command line makes ld search
>> every object file for every dependancy, which is why I think that
>> works.
>>
>> To fix this, do the following-like:
>>
>> gcc -g -Wall -pipe -DQMAX -DLINUX_VERSION="\"3.21+\"" \
>> -Lclient/ -Llinux/ -Lqcommon/ -Lserver/ \
>> -Wl,-( -llinux -lclient -lserver -lqcommon -Wl,-) -lm \
>> -ldl -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -lSDL -lpthread
>
> *blink* wow, thats amazing. Worked great once I figured out I had to
> escape ( and ).
>
>> Do a 'man ld' and search for the option '--begin-group'
>> (abbreviated to '-('  ) - enclosing the libs in -( and -) makes
>> ld search every archive in that group for every external
>> dependancy in that group.  I hope that works.
>
> This is an interesting caveat I never would have guessed or even
> thought to look for -- thanks!
> I'm down to two undefined references in snd_mix but I think they are
> probably just stupidity on my part.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> -tom
>