hi,

clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> anyone trying to compile POV-Ray with a modern version of OpenEXR - i.e.
> 3.0.0 or higher - will have noticed that we're having some snag there.
>
> The reason behind this is that some time in the past, Industrial Light
> and Magic (who had kicked off the OpenEXR thingumajig) had transferred
> the whole shebang to the public, who picked up the ball and ran with it
> like crazy.
>
> Now, in March this year, this transfer has left its mark to the
> structure of the project itself, leading to two major changes:
>
> (1) The OpenEXR library, which used to be named `IlmImf` (for Intustrial
> Light and Magic Image Format), has now officially been renamed to `OpenEXR`.
>
> (2) An accompanying library, providing low-level mathematical stuff,
> like a 16-bit floating-point data type, that used to go by the moniker
> `IlmBase`, has been renamed to `Imath`.
>
> This breaks all our builds, because those are not the libraries we are
> looking for.
>
> And someone needs to fix this.

my knowledge of the autotools is limited, but a quick look in 'unix/config'
shows that various macros test for the various libs, and 'ax_check_openexr.m4'
uses 'pkg-config' to do its thing.  looks like as long as 'pkg-config' is
up-to-date, only actual changed names of header files should impact.


> I think Lovecraft must have had premonitions of the POV-Ray parser code...

:-)


regards, jr.

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