I give up. I am trying to do something so very very simple.
I also need to move on. Been working on this since yesterday.
Not to mention i hope this is the right place to contribute in the form of
cold hard cash!

I have tried to rebuild povray on my remote linux web server.
Why? so i can run povray from my crontab. Once an hour, as root.
I heard thru these boards i needed to recompile povray without the display
option or else i cannot do what i want to. I recompiled povray. and rebuilt
it successfully without the x display option.
Now, any attempt to run povray my new image file is created but empty. Also,
in my ssh window, i only see a quick flash of povray text. Ending most of
the time with Output Options. I am access my server from my home computer
via ssh window.

I am really stuck here. Sorry im an idiot and all that.
If i knew how to uninstall povray i would go back to the nonsource version.
When i had that installed, it would at least render for me. Help.

If you can help me and are willing to talk on the phone and can accept money
thru paypal, i would like to commission you for help on this project. Over
the phone i can get your paypal email address and pay you on the spot
($50.00 guaranteed for help). I would be willing to pay for help installing
povray to work via my crontab or a cgi interface, whichever is easier for
you to do. But i need to know how you are doing it, hence the phone call.
Hopefully, we could do it together over the phone.

i have a fast root connection to my server via Putty ssh. I assure you i am
not an idiot in linux, i have compiled apache, configured ssl, installed
cpan modules, made suexec work, run dns etc. I promise you won't regret
helping me. I also know perl very well. But i cannot figure out how to do
what i need here. Again, trying to get povray to render hourly from my
remote linux machine. Ideally using cron our cgi.

In summary $50.00 guaranteed minimum if you can help me install povray as
speced above. Keep in mind the source is already on the server waiting for
your magic commands :).

Interested? If so please email me at the following email address:
axe### [at] gigfootnet
Note, this email address is temporary and will become inactive after one of
you helps me solve this problem.

Friday, May 21, 2004
somewhere in north carolina

P.S. If you contributed to the povray source code in anyway, please let me
know on the phone before i send your payment.

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> Why? so i can run povray from my crontab. Once an hour, as root.
> I heard thru these boards i needed to recompile povray without the display
> option or else i cannot do what i want to. I recompiled povray. and rebuilt
> it successfully without the x display option.

	The main problem with 3.50c and crontab comes from a little bug which
has been discussed last year.  I guess you found the thread already:
http://news.povray.org/povray.unix/thread/%3C3ee306aa%241%40news.povray.org%3E/
	So you indeed need to recompile POV-Ray in order to add the bugfix.
In principle you do not need to change anything else.  The configure --without-x
option does not work in this release.
	You don't need to uninstall the binary package before compiling and
reinstalling the source -- well, in principle (I've never tried actually).
Moreover there is indeed no uninstall option.  If that is a problem though,
you can remove all files manually:

/usr/local/bin/povray
/usr/local/share/povray-3.5/*
/usr/local/share/doc/povray-3.5/*
/usr/local/etc/povray.*

	(I'm not sure whether the directories are versioned as above, but
their location should be correct for a standard installation).

> Now, any attempt to run povray my new image file is created but empty. Also,
> in my ssh window, i only see a quick flash of povray text. Ending most of
> the time with Output Options.

	I would bet $50 that you screwed up the code in unix.cpp  ;-)

	An alternative to recompiling the 3.50c sources will be to use the
binary for 3.6 RC1 that will appear at some point (if you can wait till
it is released -- hopefully soon).

	- NC

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Nicolas Calimet <pov### [at] freefr> wrote:
> > Why? so i can run povray from my crontab. Once an hour, as root.
> > I heard thru these boards i needed to recompile povray without the display
> > option or else i cannot do what i want to. I recompiled povray. and rebuilt
> > it successfully without the x display option.
>
>  The main problem with 3.50c and crontab comes from a little bug which
> has been discussed last year.  I guess you found the thread already:
> http://news.povray.org/povray.unix/thread/%3C3ee306aa%241%40news.povray.org%3E/
>  So you indeed need to recompile POV-Ray in order to add the bugfix.
> In principle you do not need to change anything else.  The configure --without-x
> option does not work in this release.
>  You don't need to uninstall the binary package before compiling and
> reinstalling the source -- well, in principle (I've never tried actually).
> Moreover there is indeed no uninstall option.  If that is a problem though,
> you can remove all files manually:
>
> /usr/local/bin/povray
> /usr/local/share/povray-3.5/*
> /usr/local/share/doc/povray-3.5/*
> /usr/local/etc/povray.*
>
>  (I'm not sure whether the directories are versioned as above, but
> their location should be correct for a standard installation).
>
> > Now, any attempt to run povray my new image file is created but empty. Also,
> > in my ssh window, i only see a quick flash of povray text. Ending most of
> > the time with Output Options.
>
>  I would bet $50 that you screwed up the code in unix.cpp  ;-)
>
>  An alternative to recompiling the 3.50c sources will be to use the
> binary for 3.6 RC1 that will appear at some point (if you can wait till
> it is released -- hopefully soon).
>
>  - NC

Wow, your advice is very helpful and generous.
I uninstalled manually.
I also started over with a fresh copy of the source code but when i fixed
the bug as described in unix.cpp. My make fails.
Starting failure is at the unix function XDisplay not present.

I  may try again though. I did manage however to uninstall manually as you
suggested. Then i went back to the original non source version and
installed that. I am back to where i started from which in my case, is
progress :)

Thanks for the advice.
James

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3dtrue wrote:
> 
> I also started over with a fresh copy of the source code but when i fixed
> the bug as described in unix.cpp. My make fails.
> Starting failure is at the unix function XDisplay not present.

I don't remember precisely but you may need to manually modify for 
compiling without X support, try adding '#define X_DISPLAY_MISSING' to 
conf.h after running configure.

Christoph

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