I finally got POV 3.5 to compile under Solaris 8 by doing a ./configure 
--without-x, and then going to the src directory, and removing the 
static instruction from the Makefile.  I edited myself a basic 
povray.ini file, with library pointers to the appropriate places, and 
rendered... once.

When I went to render a second time, I began getting error messages that 
povray.ini could not be opened.

To check it, I edited it with vi, and it opened without difficulty.

Any idea what's gone wrong, and how to fix it?

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On 08/06/2002 02:46 AM, Dawn McKnight wrote:
> I finally got POV 3.5 to compile under Solaris 8 by doing a ./configure 
> --without-x, and then going to the src directory, and removing the 
> static instruction from the Makefile.  I edited myself a basic 
> povray.ini file, with library pointers to the appropriate places, and 
> rendered... once.
> 
> When I went to render a second time, I began getting error messages that 
> povray.ini could not be opened.
> 
> To check it, I edited it with vi, and it opened without difficulty.
> 
> Any idea what's gone wrong, and how to fix it?
> 

I think you need to create a file ~/.povray.conf or 
/usr/local/etc/povray.conf with the following lines:

[File I/O Security]
none

[Shellout Security]
allowed

It's caught a few of us...

Geoff

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