From:	quazar AT freemail DOT co DOT za (Marc Brooker)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Problems with Pov-Ray Source
Date:	Sun, 24 Jan 1999 16:38:10 GMT
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I tried to compile the pov-ray sources for msdos and they compiled
fine. When they are run the cursor is displayed and the program enters
into an infinite loop. I tracked down the problem and it appears that
the ' charachter (single qoute, apostrophe) has been used in many
places in place of the " (double quote) or brackets (); 
This causes the expressions not to evaluate (GCC tells me this if I
comple the source with -Wall). There is over a megabyte of source and
it would take a bit long to hand pick through all the sources and
replace ' with " or ( in all the right places. Is there a faster
solution or a switch to gcc that will allow it to compile this code
properly. I am using the supplied makefile.

The code is for MSDOS Pov-Ray 3.0. 

I would like to thank all the guys on this group for being polite and
friendly (unlike a lot of the regulars on c.lang.c). I don't belive my
problem is in the faq.

Thanks
Marc
Marc "Mud Rat" Brooker
quazar[at]freemail.co.za
Quazar Free Software Group

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