[Bf-committers] Re: Fix: Using Yafray for background rendering

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:16:26PM +0200, Alejandro Conty Estevez wrote:
> There's a mistake in the loading code in blender. It checks the plugin
> to have execution permission. Otherwise it ignores it. But:
> 
> /usr/local/lib/libyafrayplugin.so
>   drwxr-x---    2 root     root         4096 2004-08-12 11:44
> 
> Does not even have read permission unless you run blender as root. Do
> chmod 755 /usr/local/lib/libyafrayplugin.so
> 
> It is strange since here "scons install" puts the right permission flags.
> Anyway we have to change that check in blender and check only for read
> permission. I didn't do it cause cvs was frozen when I discovered it,
> can I do it now?

Yes, go ahead. Imnsho, you were allowed to fix it during the freeze too,
but that's for next time :)

Wouter