Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> After upgrading my entire system (OpenSuse 12.1) I compiled povray for it
> and tried to run it with -benchmark. I only installed povray locally in my
> home directory. It could not find "functions.inc". (It can find it when
> running anything else.)
>
> The message given by povray when running it with that parameter is that
> it will look for +L parameters in the command line, so I specified one
> to point to the standard include file directory. It still could not find
> "functions.inc". The exact command I used was this:
>
> povray +L/home/warp/software/povray-3.7.0.RC6/include -benchmark
>
> The only way I was able to make it work was to actually go to that directory
> and run it directly from there. Then it was able to find it.

It works under Linux Mint so I think it has to do with OpenSuse's security
enhancements that made me switch linux version. I just freaked out with all the
special files that needed to change every time I wanted to do something that I
had done in Ubuntu earlier without effort.

Have fun raytracing.

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