Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> 
> How old is your Debian system?  They switched to gcc 3.2 in January
> last year, so there so be sufficient support to use at least that
> version of gcc by now....
> 
it is from 2002, a 3.0. with gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.0.4.
i have tuned it up with some backports and self-compilations.

> 
> You will not be able to build POV-Ray 3.6 with gcc 2.x as those
> versions of gcc are far too far behind the ISO C++ standard (and far
> too buggy and outdated in general) to accept the POV-Ray 3.6 source
> code at all.
> 
some time ago gcc-3.? was too unstable to use. and then i disfollwed
the discussion.
then i have to make a complete upgrade of my system. sounds like much
work... *snief

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