On Tue, 13 Oct 1998 20:37:32 -0500, Juan F. Herrera 
	<jua### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>Hi,
>I'm a new user to POV-ray. I'm using it to plot the energy levels of the
>hydrogen atom (check out some at
>http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/5801/), and I'm very
>excited about it. However, I make most of the numerical work in linux,
>and having to switch to win95 between plots is somewhat unwieldly. I
>just can't use 3.02, because I use macros and some other new features. I
>tried the unofficial port at
>http://www.users.ezwv.com/~mclilith/download/index.html which was
>announced on this group a while back, but it was a binary that just got
>me a segmentation fault. I'm thinking about porting the ms-dos source to
>3.1 (having just command-line POV session would be OK to me), but before
>I try that I thought I'd first find out whether anyone already has
>ported to linux or some other *n*x.

As the person who created the binary that you mentioned, I'm surprised
that it caused a segfault.  However, I can tell you how to reproduce my 
results - hopefully in a form that works for you.  I used the DOS 3.1 
source (make sure you unzip with -aL), combined with the unix directory 
from the 3.02 source.  

I modified the 3.02 makefile to remove all references to halos and add 
sections for interior.c and media.c.  I cheated by omitting the 
dependency information, since I was only going to build it once and
could just delete the .o files if I changed anything, but you might
want to use gcc to generate real dependencies.

I also got the latest official releases of zlib and libpng from 
ftp.uu.net/pub/png (if this address is wrong, see the documentation 
that accompanies the abbreviated version included with the DOS port 
for the correct address) and built those in place of the versions
included with the official DOS source (mainly because those versions
had usable makefiles/configure scripts.)

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