MTGordon:

Thanks for the help!  2 and 3 did the trick. Just FYI, here's my results

        Compaq (DEC) Alpha DS-20
        Single CPU: 500mhz
        Ram: 1G

        Skyvase benchmark: 33.0 seconds!


In article <375477D9.7862C2ED@mailbag.com>, mtg### [at] povrayorg wrote:
>nobody@nowhere wrote:
>> 
>> Folks:
>> 
>> I'm having trouble compiling Povray (latest version of sources).  I have a
>> brand new DS20 box running Digital Unix 4.0e and I'd love to benchmark it.  I
>> have only a limited amount of experience compiling things and such under
> unix,
>> so please be patient.  I compiled zlib and libpng just fine, but when I
>> compile povray with "make newunix" I get this message:
>> 
>> > make newunix
>> cc -O6 -finline-functions -ffast-math -c -ansi -DCOMPILER_VER=\".`uname`...
>> cc -O6 -finline-functions -ffast-math -c -ansi -DCOMPILER_VER=\".`uname`...
>> Make: Don't know how to make bezierDEP.  Stop.
>> *** Exit 1 (ignored)
>> 
>> Any ideas why this might be happening?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> David H.
>
>There are a few problems that have been found in the 3.1e makefile.  GNU
>make and GCC ignored them, so they went unnoticed until people tried to
>compile it on proprietary Unices.
>
>1) presence of extraneous blank spaces at the end of the line defining
>the X11 path on some Unices (Solaris and AIX, IIRC, so those wouldn't be
>messing you up).
>2) extraneous continuation marker at the end of the bcylDEP section of
>the makefile.  Looks like that's the cause of your problem (bezierDEP
>comes right after bcylDEP, which is improperly terminated).
>3) indented #define statements in polysolv.c, which seem to generate at
>least compiler warnings.
>
>Once those are fixed, it should compile under Digital Unix
>
>These problems will be fixed in the next version.
>
>P.S. If you had included your real email address, I could have sent you
>this message, and you probably could have gotten it sooner.  Your loss.
>;-)
>

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