[Radiance-general] Radiance installation on Mac OS X 10.5.6

[Rob Guglielmetti]

On Oct 31, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Greg Ward wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> I suspect there is a problem with the rmake command you picked up  
> with the OS X binaries.  Try removing "rmake" from your install  
> location and rerunning "makeall install" to see if that fixes things.

Also, there is no need to move the ray source code folder to /usr/ 
local/lib/ray. In fact, that may confuse things a bit. I recommend you  
leave the unpacked ray source folder someplace in your user directory.  
What I do is just have a  radiance folder, and inside there an  
"install" folder, where I download the head release archive (and keep  
a copy of the auxiliary files). I always unpack the HEAD release from  
there, so that the ray directory always has the latest source code  
from which I can compile and install. I also add an entry in my  
MANPATH variable to point to the ./doc/man folder inside my ray  
folder; this way whenever I call up a manpage for a radiance program  
man is pulling it up from the latest HEAD release.

- Rob