POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Linux Beta 9 now available : Re: Linux Beta 9 now available Server Time
30 Jul 2024 10:11:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Linux Beta 9 now available  
From: Mark Gordon
Date: 10 Jan 2002 22:29:38
Message: <3c3e5c22$1@news.povray.org>
In article <135### [at] mayaboanet>, "Adrien Beau"
<spa### [at] freefr> wrote:

> On Jeudi 10 Janvier 2002 14:26, Mark Gordon wrote:
> 
>> Just in time to expire in a few days, but I should have an update
>> available concurrent with other platforms.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
>> Built on Red Hat 7.2, in case it matters.
> 
> I don't know. What did Red Hat screw up, this time?

I don't know that they screwed up anything.  Mostly it's a hint to users
to let me know what they're running if they report bugs. ;-)

>> They'll be built with an prefix of
>> /usr, but this
>> one is built with a prefix  of /usr/local, though, so as not to
>> conflict with
>> anything you have in package management.
> 
> I hope there will still be a way to have a .tar.gz installed in
> /usr/local. I won't install software elsewhere.

Yeah, anything I build that isn't intended for use with a formal package
management system will be built with a /usr/local prefix.  povlinux.tgz
isn't going away completely.

>>   Keep a mind to your
>> $PATH if you end up with multiple versions installed in different
>> prefixes at some point.
> 
> $ which povray

Precisely.

-Mark Gordon


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