[geeks] Argh.

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 06:01:44PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 05:21 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >People sure make some things excessively linux dependent.  Like Povray
> >for instance.  I tried to compile it on irix, and found that the make
> >file is trying use an option "arch=i586".  WTF?
> >
> >Having trouble finding rendering program for irix.  Aqsis fails in some
> >lexx stuff after much work.  Povray is intel dependent.  And neither of
> >my projects are ready for real work (or even not real work.  They just
> >are too flawed at the moment).
> 
>   Povray is Intel-dependent?  Since when?  I ran it on 68K Suns and 
> VAXen something like twelve years ago, and SPARCs just a few years ago. 
>  As far as I recall, it's about as portable as a piece of software can 
> be.
> 
>   It's possible that it can't identify an IRIX system, and is using 
> Intel-specific options by default.

I meant to say it was creating an intel dependent make file.  I suppose
perhaps it can't identify irix, but I used to use povray for irix in the
2.x days without problem.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd