On 2018-11-05 9:58 AM (-4), Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> Cousin Ricky <ric### [at] yahoo com> wrote:
>> POV-Ray 3.8 cannot process .ini files in my library path; I have to
>> provide the path to the .ini file in order to get a successful render.
>
> The parsing of INI files works as designed and documented in 3.7. As you know,
> the Library_Path option is documented in the "Scene Parsing Options" section. It
> has effects only within the scene file.
>
> The behavior in 3.6 and before was rather confusing and would pick up
> configuration options in the order they were provided and execute them
> instantly. This means it would also parse your INI file and the overwrite
> whatever that file specified with whatever came after it in the original INI
> file. Your usage only worked due to side effects of the INI parser already
> storing the library include paths while it was parsing the options and the code
> using the same function to locate files.
So what is the point of having /usr/local/share/povray-3.8/ini in the
default povray.ini? That directory only has .ini files.
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