> Why? so i can run povray from my crontab. Once an hour, as root.
> I heard thru these boards i needed to recompile povray without the display
> option or else i cannot do what i want to. I recompiled povray. and rebuilt
> it successfully without the x display option.

	The main problem with 3.50c and crontab comes from a little bug which
has been discussed last year.  I guess you found the thread already:
http://news.povray.org/povray.unix/thread/%3C3ee306aa%241%40news.povray.org%3E/
	So you indeed need to recompile POV-Ray in order to add the bugfix.
In principle you do not need to change anything else.  The configure --without-x
option does not work in this release.
	You don't need to uninstall the binary package before compiling and
reinstalling the source -- well, in principle (I've never tried actually).
Moreover there is indeed no uninstall option.  If that is a problem though,
you can remove all files manually:

/usr/local/bin/povray
/usr/local/share/povray-3.5/*
/usr/local/share/doc/povray-3.5/*
/usr/local/etc/povray.*

	(I'm not sure whether the directories are versioned as above, but
their location should be correct for a standard installation).

> Now, any attempt to run povray my new image file is created but empty. Also,
> in my ssh window, i only see a quick flash of povray text. Ending most of
> the time with Output Options.

	I would bet $50 that you screwed up the code in unix.cpp  ;-)

	An alternative to recompiling the 3.50c sources will be to use the
binary for 3.6 RC1 that will appear at some point (if you can wait till
it is released -- hopefully soon).

	- NC

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