Hi,

I have tried both the 3.1 and 3.0 version.
I can not even get the patch correct.
Did i make some silly mistakes?

I followed the instructions that i could get. after download the povray and
pvmpov..
put them in the right place...
and....run the inst-pvm....
then i got the problem.


Axel Hecht wrote:

> 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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