I've uploaded 3.50c.  The binary is pretty good (fixed various performance
issues, now building with gcc 3.2), and I/O restrictions are enabled in
the binary but disabled in a usefully commented default
/usr/local/etc/povray.conf that is installed.  Note that the install
script won't clobber a pre-existing povray.conf, so you might want to
clear yours out of the way if you have one.  This version includes a
number of other bugfixes that caused build problems on Solaris and
BSD-derived Unices.

Minor caveat: The binary is built with Pentium optimizations.  It should
run fine (and that much faster) on Pentium or newer hardware.  If you're
running on less than a Pentium, you may need to recompile, and you may
want to consider a different hobby than ray-tracing. ;-)  If you have
sufficiently newer hardware and a sufficiently good compiler, you may want
to recompile for your specific arch, but that's up to you.

Major caveat: I realized after I'd finished uploading that the default
compiler flags also assume Pentium and are probably fairly gcc-specific. I
need to implement some decent configure options in that regard. Non-x86,
non-gcc users will need to edit src/Makefile for now.  Consider yourselves
warned.  I should have a fix up soon. The 3.50d binary probably won't be
different, unless there are other problems.

I did some research and found that I should distribute the object files I
got from the build if I want to distribute binaries which are statically
linked against LGPL libraries.  There's now a povobj.tar.gz file in the
ftp directory in case anyone wants them, along with a file containing the
link line I used.

-Mark Gordon

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