> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 19:46 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> No logo on this one at all :
>>
>>     http://www.blastwave.org/articles/BLS-0052/index.html
>>
>>     This is much darker than the first image.
>>
>>     Still very simple and very open.
>
>
> Nice..
>
> I do prefer this compared to the other one you have in the site.
>


Anyone following the OpenSolaris discuss mailing list will see that I like
to render nice large images for desktop background with POV-Ray.  I have
been working, at various times, over the past 2 years to get a decent clean
build of POV-Ray on Solaris.

The process is horrible and most standard tools from /usr/xpg4/bin and
/usr/ccs/bin and Sun ONE Studio 8 or 10 or 11 simply will not work without a
LOT of warnings or errors.  Piles of errors are issued and the process
breaks down.

Of course the thing compiles on Linux.  :-o   But even there ( Fedora Core 4
on PowerPC ) I had to build a whole new tool chain first.

Needless to say I finally got the thing to compile at 04:54 AM this morning
and am still not sure if it works correctly or not.

$ /export/medusa/dclarke/local/sparc/bin/povray -h
Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.6.1 (CC @ sparc-sun-solaris2.8)
This is an unofficial version compiled by:
 Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

This is the Sparc version and hopefully someone will be able to test this
ugly monster when I get a package rolled out.

I am just really tired and happy to get this thing to _just_ build despite its
thousands of warnings.  Literally bloody thousands of warnings during the
compile.  I have this crazy belief that code can be standards compliant and
compile with NO warnings at all given a code-level spec to be compliant to.

  Good luck right ?

If this is the future of open source software then we really need to push
Solaris more and more because there is just no way that I can believe that
all the tools in Solaris and Sun ONE Studio 11 are buggy.  :-)

Despite what the guys were telling me ... that /usr/xpg4/bin/sed is buggy as
is make and who knows what else.  Yeah ... right.

Dennis
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