Sorry for the previous posting.

I was asking a question regarding whether povlinux.tar is supposed to contain a
povray binary.

I installed using the "install" script, but one of our users says he needs to use
povray via the command line (he is piping to povray). 

Since "povray" is included in the "install" script, I was wondering if that binary
was missing from povlinux.tar. Or should I just go ahead an do a build?

thanks for any info,

   Paul

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On 24 Mar 2000 16:32:30 -0500, han### [at] jaggercscolostateedu ( paul
hansen) wrote:

>Since "povray" is included in the "install" script, I was wondering if that binary
>was missing from povlinux.tar. Or should I just go ahead an do a build?

Maybe the relevant part of the script was used during the building and
beta stages of the Unix version and was unintentionally left
in.Whatever the reason, I guess if there isn't a binary included you'd
have to build it. IIRC the target is called 'newunix'


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paul hansen wrote:
 
> I was asking a question regarding whether povlinux.tar is supposed to contain a
> povray binary.

Since Linux users are assumed to have X, and you can turn off the
display, we have traditionally not included the x-povray binary in
povlinux.tgz.  It saves space and bandwidth.  The install script was
written to be generic, which is why it installs the generic console
povray binary if it is present.

-Mark Gordon

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Peter Popov wrote:

> Maybe the relevant part of the script was used during the building and
> beta stages of the Unix version and was unintentionally left
> in.

There's an element of truth to that.  It wasn't really needed, but it
made the script more general, so I left it in.  I'm planning on making
some changes to the install script; some people have had problems with
it, and it could stand some more bulletproofing.

-Mark Gordon

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Mark Gordon wrote:
> 
> paul hansen wrote:
> 
> > I was asking a question regarding whether povlinux.tar is supposed to contain a
> > povray binary.
> 
> Since Linux users are assumed to have X, and you can turn off the
> display, we have traditionally not included the x-povray binary in
> povlinux.tgz.  It saves space and bandwidth.  The install script was
> written to be generic, which is why it installs the generic console
> povray binary if it is present.

	May I suggest rethinking that? 

	Redhat has some 70% of the market at the moment and configures
with the x11 option as the default boot up. 

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Matt Giwer wrote:
> 
> Mark Gordon wrote:
> >
> > paul hansen wrote:
> >
> > > I was asking a question regarding whether povlinux.tar is supposed to contain a
> > > povray binary.
> >
> > Since Linux users are assumed to have X, and you can turn off the
> > display, we have traditionally not included the x-povray binary in
> > povlinux.tgz.  It saves space and bandwidth.  The install script was
> > written to be generic, which is why it installs the generic console
> > povray binary if it is present.
> 
>         May I suggest rethinking that?
> 
>         Redhat has some 70% of the market at the moment and configures
> with the x11 option as the default boot up.

Typo - povlinux.tgz currently comes with x-povray and s-povray but not
the vanilla console povray paul was asking about (which can easily be
emulated with x-povray -d, but still requires X libraries).  So we're
already doing what you suggest.  Besides which, there's only going to be
one Unix binary (per platform) in future releases - no more
povray/x-povray/s-povray, just povray.

-Mark Gordon

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