Chris, is it possible to release the actual executables?
I think you said they were for Unix.  Would Linux run them?

(Christoph, now you see why sometimes I'd prefer to keep my silly questions 
to p.o.-t.!)

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"Greg M. Johnson" schrieb:
> 
> Chris, is it possible to release the actual executables?
> I think you said they were for Unix.  Would Linux run them?

That does not make much sense - building from source on Linux is not
much more difficult than installing a binary.  And it will run on all
hardware while a binary will only run on what it is actually compiled
for.

Note however that the megapov plus package does not seem to build
without modifications at the moment.

> (Christoph, now you see why sometimes I'd prefer to keep my silly questions
> to p.o.-t.!)

No.  There are no silly questions.

-- Christoph

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Christoph Hormann wrote:
> That does not make much sense - building from source on Linux is not
> much more difficult than installing a binary.  And it will run on all
> hardware while a binary will only run on what it is actually compiled
> for.

This is true only if you have the compiler and build tools installed, 
and even then it still is not guaranteed to build without some degree of 
tinkering.  Most recent distributions won't install the development 
packages by default as most users won't need them (being a binary 
distribution), although installing them is usually a fairly simple matter.

Which Linux distribution are you using Greg?  Do you have a compiler 
installed (you can find out by typing "gcc -v" on a shell prompt)?

Peter D.

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Peter Duthie schrieb:
> 
> This is true only if you have the compiler and build tools installed,
> and even then it still is not guaranteed to build without some degree of
> tinkering.  Most recent distributions won't install the development
> packages by default as most users won't need them (being a binary
> distribution), although installing them is usually a fairly simple matter.

Most Linux distributions install gcc and make by default and that's all
you need for building POV-Ray (X header files would also be a good idea
but are not required).

But that's not really the point here of course since there is no binary
available and as said it does not seem to build without modifications
either.

-- Christoph

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"Peter Duthie" <pd_### [at] warlordsofbeercom> wrote in message 
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>
> Which Linux distribution are you using Greg?  Do you have a compiler 
> installed (you can find out by typing "gcc -v" on a shell prompt)?
>


So far, just goofing around with Knoppix.  Got a new desktop however and 
about to experiment with something else.

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