For anyone else out there who tries to compile Povray on Cygwin and
finds it doesn't work, I've found the solution: tell it it's Linux.

./configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu COMPILED_BY="<address>"

It turns out that Cygwin is a good enough emulation of Linux that this
works perfectly.

-- 
Ross Smith ...................... Pharos Systems, Auckland, New Zealand
"Carelessly planned projects take three times longer to complete than
expected. Carefully planned projects take four times longer to
complete than expected, mostly because the planners expect their
planning to reduce the time it takes." -- Anon.

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Hi Ross,

> For anyone else out there who tries to compile Povray on Cygwin and
> finds it doesn't work, I've found the solution: tell it it's Linux.
> 
> ../configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu COMPILED_BY="<address>"

	Hey, that's a funny trick  :-)

	Sorry for I didn't further address your earlier trouble with cygwin.
Since the problem is rather odd and that there were already several other
issues due to libtiff, I gave up and instead rewrotte the libtiff support
for the future 3.6.2 release.  I need to do more tests on cygwin though...

	- NC

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