On 3/19/19 4:01 PM, Warren wrote:
> Hello / Hi
> I have installed PovRay 3.8.0-x.10064738.unofficial last sunday on Ubuntu with
> the sources compilation.
> To easily switch between several povray versions I have the following files in
> 'usr/local/bin' :
> 'povray3-7' which is the binary of the stable 3.7 branch
> 'povray3-8' which is the binary of the 3.8.0[etc] described above
> and a file 'povray' which is a symbolic link that can point to one of the two
> binaries above.
> 
> I have a scene that renders with povray 3.7 but doesn't with v3.8.
> With the 3.8 version, povray outputs the following message in the console:
> 
...
> 

I can confirm the v38 issue. Also running Ubuntu 18.04 though g++7 vs 
Warren's 8.

It seems the v3.8 branch (commit 74b3ebe) needs a space ahead of the 
macro #end statement to work as follows:

#macro LoadThing(filePath)
     #include filePath
  #end                 // <-- Add extra space before #end and OK

LoadThing("zoomBangCrash.inc")

and whenever the include file has an empty line, C++ comment style line, 
C++ comment line and then a declare line. The following for 
zoomBangCrash.inc, less the line numbers, is also a v3.8 parse issue if 
there is no space ahead of the main file macro #end:

01
02 //
03 //
04 #declare A=1;

Perturb the include much and things work whether there is a space before 
the macro #end or not. Change the #declare A=1; to #declare Sphere00 = 
sphere { 0, 1 } for example and things are fine.

Bill P.

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