[quake2] Re: quake3 source

[Richard W. Knight]

tom fogal wrote:

> <20050820133320.GE8474 at spacepants.org>Jamie Wilkinson writes:
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>>This one time, at band camp, qudos wrote:
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>>>Compiles fine in linux through Makefile, not by cons, anyway there are
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>>The cons error is because the whole source tree uses DOS line endings.
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>I spent bit of time in #icculus on freenode, and TTimo popped in.  Then
>I started bitching about build systems and offended him, not realizing
>he was the one to put together the release :O ... oops.
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>Anyway he noted that the -a option will autoconvert line endings when
>extracting from a zip.
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>Also its been noted many times now that gcc3 seems to work, but you
>need to manually edit a few lines to remove the -Werror CFLAG.
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>Dunno if the permissions bothered anyone else, but +x on source files
>made me cringe. So I wrote a quick script that recursively changes all
>files from the current directory, to permissions 700 if a directory, or
>600 if a regular file:
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>http://www.is-useless.org/perms.sh
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>Unfortunately its not very smart.  It doesn't know that some things
>should STAY executable, so (for example) code/unix/cons gets its
>execute bit stripped.
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>-tom
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I think it's great to see that ID has released this source code, but 
I've had, for some time now, a native Linux version of Q3 so, why so 
much excitement? Unless perhaps someone is able to create a true single 
player version of Q3! That would be cool.

Thanks,
Rick Knight