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  Re: Compiling PoV-Ray 3.7 under Linux  
From: Jim Holsenback
Date: 9 Nov 2011 09:49:51
Message: <4eba930f$1@news.povray.org>
On 11/09/2011 07:29 AM, Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann wrote:
> On 09.11.2011 09:45, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>
>> You can propably expect to also need the pictures' formats library also
>> in -dev version... start looking for :
>> libpng12-dev
>> libtiff4-dev
>> libjpeg62-dev
>> libopenexr-dev
>> ... and so on (number and package name might vary with your distribution)
>
> I mistook a "1" for an "l"... after correct that, configure went
> flawless, but at the end of the "make check" process, I got a huge mass
> of cryptic error messages, so "make install" did not work either.
>
> No, I give up... or wait until I either can afford a second computer
> running under Windows or the final release of 3.7 is published and
> finally available as a Debian standard package! Too bad, no really good
> looking indoor radiosity until at least next summer...
>
> See you in Khyberspace!
>
> Yadgar
hey don't give up ... sounds like you're close. I'd be willing to bet 
those last errors are related to the need for you to assume capabilities 
other than just what your user account has ... heard of sudo?


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