Simon Andrews wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> What I've found is that povray, when called with *any* command line
> switches (including +gafile), will silently die if the DISPLAY
> environment variable is not set (which it isn't in a CGI script).  If I
> manually set that variable to some arbitrary number (which isn't used),
> then povray suddenly bursts back into life, and does all of its
> processing as expected.  Interestingly povray will work without this
> variable if you don't call it with any switches at all.
> 
> Is this behaviour documented?  Is there a good reason for it that I'm
> missing? I can't see any need for POV-ray to always have the DISPLAY
> variable set, as it can be very useful without it.  Since I was running
> POV with the -D flag set (ie no display), I can't see why it would be
> required.

Have you tried compining POV-Ray without X support ('#define
X_DISPLAY_MISSING 1' in 'conf.h')?

Christoph

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