Nicolas Calimet wrote:
> Lothar, Claus, and anyone interested  :o)
>
> I've finally managed to compile POV-Ray 3.5c on IRIX 6.5
>with gcc-3.2.1 and a statically linked libpng (all other libs
>are normally shared). I DIDN'T TEST IT AT ALL. Available here:
>
>http://pov4grasp.free.fr/download/povray.gz
>

Thanks a lot Nicolas for providing the bins. Unfortunately I have
difficulties to unpack your gz. Using gunzip I'll receive the message: Not
in gz format. Any recommendation? Have Irix 6.5 with no Overlays. Tried on
an Indigo II and Octane.

>
>PS1: IRIX is a f***ing environment for compiling anything. I spent
>      several days for nothing trying to compile the successive
>      versions of gcc (starting at gcc-3.0) when they appeared online,
>      until I got this gcc-3.2.1 working with a single mod in the
>      source makefile. POV-Ray was almost as difficult to get here.
>      (only gcc-2.8.1, from 1998, was already installed, and could
>      not work properly).
>
>PS2: I'm currently working on a rewrite of the ./configure script
>      that won't be targetted towards Linux, but with compilation
>      flags detected on-the-fly. It's moslty ready, however it still
>      fails on IRIX. Not surprising though... Damnit.
>

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