[Radiance-dev] Re: compiling radiance

[Gregory J. Ward]

Does anyone want to take the reins on writing an INSTALL for the top- 
level directory?

-Greg

> From: "Lars O. Grobe" <akilog at nus.edu.sg>
> Date: December 30, 2008 12:22:03 AM PST
>
> Isn't a file INSTALL in the ray directory the right place to  
> collect all this information? Having one section "old  
> distributions" in such a file would allow to add information on  
> sources such as backports, how to compile on old linux  
> distributions and such. Here is also the place to collect hints on  
> systems such as solaris, os x, the various windows ports - even if  
> we have only urls to sites describing the procedure, that way users  
> having problems to install could have a start. In the very  
> beginning, the options
>
> a) binaries from radiance-online.org and radsite
> b) binaries coming with distributions
> c) compiling from source (generic using makeall install) should be  
> present,
>
> than all the special work-arounds.
>
> I have an ubuntu box running, is there need for an ubuntu  
> maintainer? Be aware that I have no (aka zero aka nul) experience  
> with package building except making my own ones, but I guess that  
> building on top of Bernd's debian work, there are few changes to  
> expect.
>
> Lars.