POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : FreeBSD 4.4 povray 3.5 : Re: FreeBSD 4.4 povray 3.5 Server Time
28 Jul 2024 08:23:46 EDT (-0400)
  Re: FreeBSD 4.4 povray 3.5  
From: Christopher James Huff
Date: 6 Aug 2002 13:01:38
Message: <chrishuff-9AA4E8.11513706082002@netplex.aussie.org>
In article <3d4fccd6$1@news.povray.org>, "Jeremy" <jer### [at] chmntcom> 
wrote:

> I built povray after downloading the new source last
> night. The build went ok after I edited the makefile
> a little bit. But when I ran the program I got an
> error about file permission and the povray.ini file.
> So I ran chmod a+rw /usr/local/etc/povray.ini
> then tried to run the program again, same message.
> At this point I went to look through the source code
> and noticed that there were two versions of POV_ALLOW_READ ...WRITE one in
> config.h and the other in frame.h. If I comment
> out the macros in config.h and rebuild, the program
> runs fine. I didn't look into it any further put thought
> I would post here. Hopefully some one can tell me
> the difference between the two declarations.

Look at the povray.unix group. There has been lots of discussion about 
this already.

-- 
Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>
POV-Ray TAG e-mail: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
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