Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>> No where does it say I have to touch any macro. That should probably be set
>> in the Configure script anyway, which means this is bug (IMHO).
>
>The only "bug" here is that you read neither the documentation (the README
>file) nor the #error directive message.  As a matter of fact the directive
>is there for exactly this reason because in the past countless people did
>not read any documentation and started to distribute unofficial versions of
>POV-Ray that violated the POV-Ray license.

ok, so it's not a bug. I read the README.unix but not README as they
traditionally contain very unusful information for Unix people.

>So if you consider it a bug that the configure script does not force you to
>read the documentation, I think your expectations are unrealistic...

No, I consider it someone frivolous (sp?) to require the person doing the
compile to put there name in a macro for crying out loud. I shouldn't have
to do it at all.

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