[Radiance-general] gensky

[Greg Ward]

A small correction to this.  The "rad4R0all.tar.gz" download does  
contain the TIFF library and all the example files and directories.

Best,
-Greg

> From: Thomas Bleicher <tbleicher at googlemail.com>
> Date: March 27, 2010 1:13:54 PM PDT
>
> Jia.
>
> The current official release is 4.0 from radsite.lbl.gov. This package
> contains all files for the core tools. It does not contain source
> files for libtiff which is only required if you want to compile the
> tool ra_tiff which allows conversion from and to TIF images. However,
> there is a small bug in the makeall script: if it can't compile
> ra_tiff it will not install any of the other converters. It will
> report errors instead.
>
> To avoid these errors you need to download an additional package,
> rad3R9supp.tar.gz (or any other archive). This file contains the
> libtiff sources and a lot of other material (example scenes, images,
> mesh objects). It's a pretty big file and because it's not essential
> for the core Radiance tools it was spit out in a separate package.
> Don't worry about the version number. The "supp" file should work with
> the new 4.0 Radiance from radsite.lbl.gov. All other files on
> radiance-online.org need to be updated. The official 4.0 release of
> Radiance is only a couple of days old so there was no time yet to
> update that site, too.
>
> The best way to compile is:
>
> 1) Download and unpack rad4R0all.tar.gz. This will create a "ray"  
> directory
> 2) Download and unpack rad3R9supp.tar.gz. Unpack this in the same
> directory. This will extract its files in the same "ray" directory
> that was created before.
> 3) cd into "ray"
> 4) compile with "sudo ./makeall install | tee makeall.output"
>
> This will create a file called "makeall.output" with all the stuff
> that's scrolling by on your terminal during the process. You can check
> it for errors later. If you see the message about errors again send
> this file and we can see what was going wrong.
>
> Regards,
> Thomas