daveuu schrieb:
> I compiled and installed 3.7 beta 33 without errors (eventually). Beta 34 source
> for Unix isn't available as far as I can see and 33 has expired.

Merging the beta 34 source code for Windows into your copy of the beta 
33 source code should get you to something. That's how I benchmark and 
regression-test the POV-Ray code I'm presently working on (I develop on 
a Windows machine, but due to easier scripting I run bulk tests on a 
Debian Linux machine instead - which also gives me confidence that the 
code I'm writing is portable.)

This might not work for version increments where source files are added 
or removed, but that's only seldom the case at present.


> play@play-desktop /usr/local/share/povray-3.7 $ povray --betacode
> 1432718284
> 
> play@play-desktop /usr/local/share/povray-3.7 $ POVRAY_BETA=1432718284
> 
> play@play-desktop /usr/local/share/povray-3.7 $ echo $POVRAY_BETA
> 1432718284
> 
> play@play-desktop /usr/local/share/povray-3.7 $ povray
> povray: this pre-release version of POV-Ray for Unix has expired

I think you will need to "export POVRAY_BETA" as well, so that the shell 
does not keep the environment variable a personal secret, but actually 
passes it on to POV-Ray.

To make sure you don't introduce any typos, you can also combine the 
first two commands to:

   POVRAY_BETA=`povray --betacode`

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