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breadbin · 06-02-2007, 03:17 PM

Hi I have recently put Mandriva 2007 on my new AMD 64bit computer and I tried doing a make on the quake 2 source. It gave me an error about the architecture not being supported. Do I have to get a different package or is there a way around it. Will this be the same for all the other source I have downloaded in the past? I am a complete newbie (to 64 bit linux anyway). Thanks for any help you can give me.

weibullguy · 06-02-2007, 03:45 PM

Maybe you could post the actual error message. The last 20-30 lines of output from the failed make is a good rule of thumb.

dawkcid · 06-03-2007, 12:25 PM

Quake 2 compiles OK for me on amd64. What source are you using? You could try the version from icculus:
http://www.icculus.org/quake2/files/quake2-r0.16.tar.gz.

breadbin · 06-04-2007, 02:50 AM

Hi, thanks for the replies. It was the Icculus source and I got it working in the end. I cheated though. I reinstalled the 32bit version of Mandriva. I got it compiled but now there is a new problem it cannot find the ref-gl.so libraries or something. I must check to see if my GL drivers are there.

dawkcid · 06-07-2007, 11:54 AM

The ref-gl.so libraries are part of quake, you should find them in the same directory as the quake binary. Alas, quake is too stupid to figure out where the libraries are from the pathname you call it with, so you just need a shell wrapper to cd to the correct directory, e.g.,

Code:

#!/bin/sh
cd /path/to/quake
exec ./${0##*/}

The "${0##*/}" takes the basename the script so you can symlink quake2/sdlquake2 to the same wrapper script if you want. The sdl version works better for me, though, so I always just run sdlquake2.