[Radiance-general] !genprism and !genbox errors

[Greg Ward]

Unless you are using the other package, changing your PATH  
environment variable to call the directory containing the Radiance  
binaries ahead of others is the simplest and most appropriate  
resolution to this problem.  There is nothing in Unix-land that says  
commands need to be complete, and the PATH method is adequate to  
avoid such issues.

-Greg

> From: "Lars O. Grobe" <grobe at gmx.net>
> Date: August 7, 2008 4:58:23 AM EDT
>
>> Has this command changed too? (such as rview to rvu)
>
> On Linux systems, there already exists a command genbox. So the  
> package maintainers (I guess you use a debian or ubuntu setup?)  
> have to rename these tools (I would guess to rgenbox, rgenprism) to  
> avoid unpredicteable behaviour. The source tree at radsite/radiance- 
> online doesn't reflect these changes, the documentation doesn't do  
> it neither.
>
> Actually I start to feel that the fact that a lot of radiance  
> installations are done on Linux those days, but the tools' names do  
> not have a commen prefix or anything that would make it possible to  
> include them unchanged into any distribution, is getting more and  
> more trouble. As a rule, when encountering such problems, try to  
> find out "which" command you actually call, and what it does, by  
> running it seperately, not from inside a scene description.
>
> CU Lars.