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From: Doctor John
Date: 11 Jun 2009 08:01:30
Message: <4a30f21a@news.povray.org>

Klaus Nowikow wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am using povray-3.6.1 on Gentoo. There's a global ini
> file /etc/povray/povray.ini containing some Library_Path entries
> for the standard libs.
> 
> I put some include files that I downloaded or created myself into
> %HOME/povray/include and created a local ini file
> $HOME/.povray/3.6/povray.ini containing a corresponding Library_Path
> entry. When I start povray now, it seems to ignore the global ini file
> and only use my local one, thus not finding the standard libraries any
> more. Is there a way to tell povray to use the global file first and
> then load the local one?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Klaus
Why not just put the paths in your local ini?
This is in mine:

Library_Path="/usr/local/share/povray-3.6"
Library_Path="/usr/local/share/povray-3.6/ini"
Library_Path="/usr/local/share/povray-3.6/include"
Library_Path="/home/john/povray/include"

BTW POV doesn't care about repeated library paths

John
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