Hi,

Hope this is the right group to post to.

I found the solution to the following problem myself while writing this
report. I thought that i should report my findings.


the problem can bes solved by installing package libx11-dev

Best regards, Jan


Runnign configure on Debain "Sarge" failed to find/configure X-Windows
support.

configure (finally) reports the following:

================================================================
Pov-Ray 3.6 has been configured with the following options:
  I/O restrictionss: enabled
  X Windows display: disabled
  SVGA display     : disabled

Type 'make' to build and 'make install' to install all files in
thee hierarchy /usr/local
=======================================================================

I would like to know if anyone has come across this (and solved it) or if
anyoney woudl be so kind to help me find out what is wrong. As far as I
understand the option --with-x is on by default (i even tried to supply it
on the commandline, but it did not help).

I also have tried to remove in "#define X_DISPLAY_MISSING 1" in conf.h but
then Povray would not compile. I guess this has to do with the fact the

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In article <web.41c4b110a62d854dd53485690@news.povray.org> , "IdoIT" 
<ido### [at] tiscalise> wrote:

> I found the solution to the following problem myself while writing this
> report. I thought that i should report my findings.
>
> the problem can bes solved by installing package libx11-dev

Well, that would be a problem with your installation.  It definetly is not a
problem of POV-Ray.

If you expect Debian to install that package by default, you should probably
report to Debian that (a rather common?) X package is not installed by
whatever defaults you used.

    Thorsten

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e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

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> In article <web.41c4b110a62d854dd53485690@news.povray.org> , "IdoIT"
> <ido### [at] tiscalise> wrote:
>
> > the problem can bes solved by installing package libx11-dev

Debian does not install -dev packages by default.  IIRC, It is intended to
be a user workstation as per default install, and as such, does not install
-dev packages by default.  If you plan to compile software on Sarge, you
ahve to manually install -dev packages on Sarge, and you are expected to
select the mandatory -dev packages for POV-Ray to compile it.  [For all I
know, you're expected to manually install "make" and "gcc" via manual
package selection via aptitude by default and related tools as well, so
this would seem logical.]

Indeed, this is not a POV-Ray bug, per se.  Although you may want to advise
it to/for anyone who doesn't have a clue about compiling software (e.g. "If
you plan on manually compiling POV-Ray, be sure that you have installed the
developmental packages in your distribution for the libraries used by
POV-Ray, e.g. for X11 ... or have installed them manually and properly...
etc.").  *shrugs*

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