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Linux: leave the default symbol visibility to improve modding with tools#3852

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Closes #3562

At first I thought it might be because of the lack of -Wl,--export-dynamic and -fPIC as linker flags, although adding them had no effect. Then I started to lower the optimization levels, suspecting that this was due to the highest optimization level - that's not the issue either. Flags for debug information in the form -gdwarf-2 -g2 were also enabled.

Until I noticed -fvisibility=hidden and then it became clear to me why most of the function symbols in the .dynsym section were missing. Yeah....

@shawns-valve - these changes should also be applied to the engine as well, not just to game libraries!

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[HL25] Linux hw.so exports less dynamic symbols than before

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