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From: Jonathan Kelly <j0n@×××××××.au>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Povray 3.5 Testing
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 01:14:35
Message-Id: 20020805161235.0893da81.j0n@tpg.com.au
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Povray 3.5 Testing by Ryan Phillips
1 On Sun, 4 Aug 2002 20:21:06 -0700
2 Ryan Phillips <rphillips@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > I have included a masked version of the new povray 3.5 ebuild into the
5 > portage tree. Povray's package has changed to an autoconf system, and
6 > the source needs to be patched for gcc 3.1 to get it to compile
7 > correctly (atleast on my machine).
8 >
9 > Currently, ICC support may be broken (please tell me if it is, I haven't
10 > tested it), and PPC needs to be tested. If anyone finds any bugs,
11 > please open a bug report and direct it to my attention.
12 >
13 > As a sidenote, there is a new I/O security implementation included into
14 > this version of povray. I have disabled it by default
15 > (/etc/povray.conf). Is this wise?
16
17 I think there is something weird going on here related to the fact that
18 the 3.5 tarball has the same name is the 3.1g tarball .... it downloads
19 povuni_s.tgz from ibiblio and then starts a restart operation from
20 ftp.povray.org
21
22 Cheers.
23 Jonathan Kelly.

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