Hi,
I have been asking about a support for configure; make; make install;
lately and have been digging around as requested.
To sum it up: automake can't cope with povray's build structure in this
version, it may be possible in the next release.
Anyway, it is very complicated to create a sober build process due to
the way platform dependencies are handled. Because all functions are
treated as macros, the object files referencing platform dependent code
have to be recompiled for every target.

Any good reasons for this?

Wouldn't it be more like it to define a set of interface functions
rather than macros and checking for NULL for not-implemented features?
This way, dependencies in the Xplatform code on platform code would be
removed.
Unix may be the platform that benefits the most by this change, as it
has multiple targets, but in general it won't hurt, would it?


Axel

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