Am 14.12.2012 19:55, schrieb kissvcool:
>
>> It's seem it is povray 3.6.
>> Give a try to 3.7RC6 sources, it might have solved that X11 handling
>> already.
>
> I'm trying to install this beta version, and following the instructions :
> -1 : ./configuration
>      a bunch of line appear and I can only guess that it must be ok.

That /should/ be "./configure"; and if you run it without any arguments, 
you'll get some lines saying that you need to specify COMPILED_BY, i.e.:

     ./configure COMPILED_BY="John Doe (jdo### [at] foocom)"

You may also want to specify an installation directory via the "prefix" 
option, such as:

     ./configure --prefix=/home/jdoe/povray37 COMPILED_BY="..."

"./configure" should ideally run a bunch of tests, printing plenty of 
lines saying "Testing whether...: yes/no"; and finally explicitly tell 
you that everything is ok, with a summary of the settings "make" will be 
using.

It might complain though that some libraries are missing (you'll need 
both the libraries themselves and the corresponging *-dev packages), 
such as libboost, libpng, libjpeg, libtiff, and/or (optionally) openexr.

It's all described in the INSTALL text file though.

> -2 : make
>      Nothing happens and I get the message :

> in English ->
>            No specified target and no makefile could be found. Stop.
>
> I don't know if it's relevant but the files Makefile.am and Makefile.in are
> there.

After "./configure" has run (successfully), you should also find a 
"Makefile" (without extension).

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