On Thu, 22 Oct 1998 19:00:27 -0500, "Thorsten Froehlich"
<fro### [at] charliecnsiitedu> wrote:

>In article <362f6c03.138438362@news.povray.org> , par### [at] mailfwicom (Ronald L.
Parker) wrote:
>
>>Well, it doesn't include the makefile.  I wasn't aware that the
>>makefile was considered "source code."  But it does include directions
>>on creating your own makefile from the 3.02 version, assuming you have
>>some familiarity with your make.  All other source is unmodified from
>>official POV-Team distributions, except for the obvious modifications
>>to optout.h.
>
>Well, thats how I read the lines "The goal is that users must be able
>to re-compile the program themselves" - how can they without a makefile?

Well, 'gcc *.c unix/*.c' with appropriate other command-line
parameters works, for sufficiently small values of 'works'  For
that matter, I don't include any source whatsoever, since it's
identical in nearly every respect to the DOS source they can already
get from povray.org.  That makes it even harder to rebuild my
distribution, I suppose.

Let me put it this way: the makefile I used is not suitable for
distribution.  It would not stand up to repeated builds, because it
does not include proper dependencies for media.c or interior.c.  If
someone authoritative says I have to include it, I'll just stop
distributing the entire thing instead.  Sheesh, I'm trying to do y'all
a favor by getting some of the Linux types to leave you alone.

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