Hi,

more problems in 3.7 build process.

After applying the workarounds discussed here I could finish compiling.
 A 'make install' installs a binary into /usr/local/bin, which starts,
but does not really work due to missing files:

% povray
povray: cannot open the system configuration file
/usr/local/etc/povray/3.7/povray.conf: No such file or directory
povray: cannot open the user configuration file
/home/hadmut/.povray/3.7/povray.conf: No such file or directory
povray: I/O restrictions are disabled



make install simply does not install /usr/local/etc/povray/3.7


Instead it tries to install $HOME/.povray into users home directories
and even fails to do so: chown fails since variable povowner is empty.



However:

This is really bad.


A make install should  *never, under no circumstances* fiddle around in
users directories. That's no go.  Things have to be installed under
/usr/local.



regards
Hadmut

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