POV-Ray 3.5

This is a first effort at an official version of POV-Ray using a configure 
script and Makefile generated by GNU autoconf and GNU automake.  There 
should be a bit of emphasis on this being a FIRST effort, and I rather 
expect this to proceed by successive approximation.  It's hardly a perfect 
arrangment, and I'd never used autoconf or automake before this, so I'm sure 
I have lots of tricks to learn, and I'm sure future releases (hopefully
including minor versions) will be superior.  

If you have problems on your platform, let me know, and I'll see what I can 
do to resolve them in future releases.

Follow these instructions to compile POV-Ray:

- make sure you have libpng, zlib, and libjpeg.  POV-Ray flat-out 
depends on these libraries.  Note that systems that use package management
may have -devel versions of these libraries, which will be needed to
compile applications against them.  The configure script isn't automatically 
going to install any of these for you.  These will be available as separate 
downloads for POV-Ray for Unix, from your GNU/Linux or Unix vendor, or
direct from the download sites.  If you don't have them, get them and install 
them first.  Note that not all versions will work equally well; it's best to
have:

libpng-1.2.1
libjpeg-6b
zlib-1.1.4

- from the directory where this file resides, run:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ make check
$ su
# make install

- note: this only creates one binary, regardless of platform.  I've combined
the X, SVGA, and console display versions into one binary.  The intent is that
if you tell POV-Ray that you want a display, it will Just Work, providing you
with the display that makes most sense in your current context.   If you don't
have either X or SVGA libraries, it should still compile fine, but without
the support for display types you may be lacking.  Pre-compiled binaries
should depend only on glibc 2.2.

Mark Gordon <mtgordon@povray.org>, July 2002
