Ling Zhang wrote:
> 
> I am a graduate student in Wayne State university here in detroit, usa.
> i am trying to install a pvmpov on to our sun workstations and keep
> getting errors, which made me quite frustrating for the recent several
> days.
>  so, i just wonder if you could give me some help.
> 
> My questions is:
> 
> 1)to intall the pvm patch, i run the inst-pvm command to put the patch.
> but, the system give me error messages like:
> 
> line 328 should start with a '+', ' ', '!'
> 
> then it just bailed out.
> 
> do you know what could be the problem?
> 
> 2) I took a look at the patch file.
> found out that the patch will compare the difference between the
> original
> povray3 source file and the pvmpov source file.
> the problem is, there is not even a pvmpov3.1 directory came out from
> the
> pvmpov3.1.tgz file.
> what could that be?
> 
> could you kindly give me some help?
> 
> i will really apprciate that.
> 
> thanks.
> 
> Ling

I don't really know which PVMPOV you are using, so:
for use with PovRay3.1e use the patch provided on
http://www.luga.de/~flierl/pvmpov/
I didn't apply it yet, but heard no trouble here. The pvmpov for povray
3.0 used to be called pvmpov3.1 as well, if I remember right, so there
may be confusion.

Axel

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