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  Re: config.log -> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lvga  
From: Thierry CHARLES
Date: 9 Jun 2009 07:20:57
Message: <4a2e4599@news.povray.org>
You can disable svgalib support by adding "--without-svga" when you run 
the configure script ... this should resolve your problem.
I think that something has been forgotten when the configure script has 
been written so the automatic way doesn't performs as well as it should.


> "mare" <por### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> hello everybody!
>> I'm trying to compile povray 3.61 in debian (lenny)amd64
>>  and config.log has the
>> following error:
> 
> Are you sure it's really an error (i.e. POV-Ray doesn't compile), and n
ot just
> an info / warning?
> 
>> checking for vga_init in -lvga... no
>> configure: SVGAlib display will be disabled
> 
> Sounds to me like you just don't have SVGAlib (development) package ins
talled,
> so POV-Ray compiles without that feature.
> 
> 
>


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