[Radiance-general] recompiling ambient.c

[Roland Schregle]

Roland William Fleming wrote:

> I'm new to UNIX so I have been using the precompiled binaries that I
> downloaded from the website.  I have now downloaded the source code but I
> don't want to ruin my existing files by compiling them incorrectly.  As I
> understand it, I should compile a new version of rpict_random by:
> 
> (1) adding the -Dtracktime=0 command to the Rmakefile script that is in
> ray/src/rt [although I don't know where to put it]
> (2) and then running that Rmakefile script.
> 
> I'm guessing that this will produce new executables for the ray-tracing
> programs, which I can then place in my ray/radbin_lnx directory.  Is this
> correct?

Perfect! Obviously you're not THAT new to UNIX! :^)

--The other Roland

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