I guess I'm a little saddened that the suggestion is to do my own
compilation.  I didn't have to do this for the Windows version or for my
knoppix box.   Could there simply be a bug in ./install?


Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:

> Greg M. Johnson wrote:
>> Greg M. Johnson wrote:
>> 
>>> There is no official POV-Ray 3.6 installed on this computer.
>> 
>> Okay, I guess I"m using the ubuntu repository version rather than the one
>> from the povray site.  It is much more advisable to get it with a package
>> installer than to roll your own, unless you know what you're doing. 
>> After several years of linux tinkering, I still don't.
>> 
> 
> Greg, it's not that difficult nor dangerous to compile your own
> executable, at least with POV-Ray. I do it for all my computers since
> version 3.5. In fact I think that I never downloaded the binaries for 3.6,
> just the sources.
> 
> Casually, I just changed from Fedora Core 6 to Ubuntu 7.10, and I just
> restored /usr/local/src/povray-3.6.1 from the backup, then made a "make
> clean" just in case, and then compiled it with:
> 
>    ./configure COMPILED_BY="Your name and address"
>    --disable-io-restrictions
> 
> Just remember to install first the basic developer packages, and make sure
> to install libX11-devel or you will not get a display...
> 
> 
> --
> Jaime

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