Once again, before officially announcing RC6 we'd appreciate if some of 
you could sanity-check the distribution packages:

   http://www.povray.org/beta/povwin-3.7.RC6-setup.exe
   http://www.povray.org/beta/povray-3.7.0.RC6.tar.gz

(As you probably guess, the former is for Windows while the latter is 
for Linux :-))

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clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>    http://www.povray.org/beta/povray-3.7.0.RC6.tar.gz

  Compiled and worked without any problems on an OpenSUSE box.

  Btw, one minor thing: When using the +ua command-line option, the preview
window shows a black background instead of the checkerboard background it
shows in povray 3.6. (The alpha channel is correct in the generated image
file, though.)

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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On 06/21/2012 12:40 PM, Warp wrote:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>>     http://www.povray.org/beta/povray-3.7.0.RC6.tar.gz
>
>    Compiled and worked without any problems on an OpenSUSE box.
>
>    Btw, one minor thing: When using the +ua command-line option, the preview
> window shows a black background instead of the checkerboard background it
> shows in povray 3.6. (The alpha channel is correct in the generated image
> file, though.)
>

yeah ... I have that as well. IIRC that issue has already been raised.

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On 21/06/2012 4:11 PM, clipka wrote:
> Once again, before officially announcing RC6 we'd appreciate if some of
> you could sanity-check the distribution packages:

Installed fine Win 7, 64 bit:

Icon on Desktop
Target
"C:\Program Files\POV-Ray\v3.7 RC6\bin\pvengine64.exe"

Start in
"C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start 
Menu\Programs\POV-Ray for Windows v3.7 RC6

Documents
C:\Users\Me\Documents\POV-Ray\v3.7

BTW In the Help file the index entries still map to the entry above.


-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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Still no file association with .pov files after install here, otherwise fine 
with Windows 7 64bit.

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> Once again, before officially announcing RC6 we'd appreciate if some of
> you could sanity-check the distribution packages:
>
>    http://www.povray.org/beta/povwin-3.7.RC6-setup.exe
>    http://www.povray.org/beta/povray-3.7.0.RC6.tar.gz
>
> (As you probably guess, the former is for Windows while the latter is
> for Linux :-))

Photons reflection is back! Yeah!

Installed like a charm and uninstalled the previous version while 
preserving the user's own scenes and added inc files.


Alain

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On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:11:36 +0200
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> Once again, before officially announcing RC6 we'd appreciate if some of 
> you could sanity-check the distribution packages:
> 
>    http://www.povray.org/beta/povwin-3.7.RC6-setup.exe
>    http://www.povray.org/beta/povray-3.7.0.RC6.tar.gz
> 
> (As you probably guess, the former is for Windows while the latter is 
> for Linux :-))

Hello guys...

Thanks for the work!

LIBPNG:

On my (aging) x86_64 Linux system, ./configure still detects libpng 1.4
instead of version 1.5. This is strange, because, as far as I can see,
everything is correctly configured:

$ pkg-config --modversion --cflags --libs libpng
1.5.1
-I/usr/include/libpng15  -lpng15  

Though earlier versions of Povray had problems compiling with 1.5, the
latest RCs didn't. So I had to modify configure.ac, run bootstrap. It
seems configure is rather strict in _not_ finding 1.5:

AX_CHECK_LIB([png], [$required_libpng_version], [png14 png png12 png],
[png_get_libpng_ver], [png.h], [png_get_libpng_ver(NULL)], [$with_libpng])

Maybe it's time to add png15 there? Or rely on pkg-config?


STRANGE -L/usr/lib inclusion:

Near the end of compilation, I get:

g++  -pipe -Wno-multichar -Wno-write-strings -fno-enforce-eh-specs -s -O3 -ffast-math
-march=native -pthread  -L/usr/lib  -L/usr/lib -o povray disp_sdl.o disp_text.o
../vfe/libvfe.a ../source/backend/libbackend.a ../source/frontend/libfrontend.a
../source/base/libbase.a ../source/libpovray.a -lSDL -L/usr/lib64
-Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib64 -lSDL -lpthread -lXpm  -lSM -lICE -lX11  -lIlmImf -pthread
-lIlmImf -lz -lImath -lHalf -lIex -lIlmThread   -lIlmThread -ltiff -ljpeg -lpng15 -lz
-lrt -lm -lboost_thread-mt  -pthread 
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-slackware-linux/4.5.2/../../../../x86_64-slackware-linux/bin/ld:
skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libSDL.so when searching for -lSDL
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-slackware-linux/4.5.2/../../../../x86_64-slackware-linux/bin/ld:
skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libSDL.so when searching for -lSDL
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-slackware-linux/4.5.2/../../../../x86_64-slackware-linux/bin/ld:
skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libSDL.so when searching for -lSDL

RC5 didn't show this... I haven't found the reason yet.


John

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On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:57:20 -0300
John Coppens <joh### [at] johncoppenscom> wrote:

> STRANGE -L/usr/lib inclusion:

The libpng15 issue, mentioned in previous mail, is still valid, but the
-L/usr/lib warnings do not seem to have any effect on the generation of
the executable. I'll try to find where those flags are coming from.

John

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On 22/06/2012 07:37, David wrote:
> Still no file association with .pov files after install here, otherwise fine 
> with Windows 7 64bit. 

thanks for the info, I'll look into this.

-- Chris

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