|
|
Thanks Gordon, great.
The spec file is not yet included. Is there any serious reason
for this, like 'doesn't work properly'? Or just lack of time ;-/ ?
-Hans-
Mark Gordon wrote:
> I've uploaded 3.50c. The binary is pretty good (fixed various performance
> issues, now building with gcc 3.2), and I/O restrictions are enabled in
> the binary but disabled in a usefully commented default
> /usr/local/etc/povray.conf that is installed. Note that the install
> script won't clobber a pre-existing povray.conf, so you might want to
> clear yours out of the way if you have one. This version includes a
> number of other bugfixes that caused build problems on Solaris and
> BSD-derived Unices.
>
> Minor caveat: The binary is built with Pentium optimizations. It should
> run fine (and that much faster) on Pentium or newer hardware. If you're
> running on less than a Pentium, you may need to recompile, and you may
> want to consider a different hobby than ray-tracing. ;-) If you have
> sufficiently newer hardware and a sufficiently good compiler, you may want
> to recompile for your specific arch, but that's up to you.
>
> Major caveat: I realized after I'd finished uploading that the default
> compiler flags also assume Pentium and are probably fairly gcc-specific. I
> need to implement some decent configure options in that regard. Non-x86,
> non-gcc users will need to edit src/Makefile for now. Consider yourselves
> warned. I should have a fix up soon. The 3.50d binary probably won't be
> different, unless there are other problems.
>
> I did some research and found that I should distribute the object files I
> got from the build if I want to distribute binaries which are statically
> linked against LGPL libraries. There's now a povobj.tar.gz file in the
> ftp directory in case anyone wants them, along with a file containing the
> link line I used.
>
> -Mark Gordon
Post a reply to this message
|
|