POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unix : Re: Povray on Debian AMD64 : Re: Povray on Debian AMD64 Server Time
3 Jul 2024 04:34:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Povray on Debian AMD64  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 19 Sep 2004 07:04:17
Message: <414d67b1@news.povray.org>
In article <web.414d5f85dec77a7acb08306a0@news.povray.org> , "" 
<nomail@nomail> wrote:

> but I still have the same error with gcc 3.4x series,
> unpacked form fresh source code did not use the "old" one:

As you were told, this is an error in your compiler, not in the POV-Ray
source code.  The error message contains information where to report
compiler bugs.  You need to follow these instructions, there is no other
answer you can get here other than that it is a bug in your compiler, for
which nobody here is responsible and about which nobody here can do
anything.

> gcc-Version 3.4.2 (Debian 3.4.2-2)

I would strongly recommend to get the official gcc version from the gcc
website rather than whatever Debian ships with their distribution!  Debian
is known to screw up perfectly good open source packages and to distribute
supposedly "improved" versions full of bugs due to untested patches Debian
adds to their distribution.  You might also want to consider using a less
outdated Linux distribution like Redhat or Suse.

POV-Ray has been successfully - without encountering compiler bugs -
compiled by many users using recent versions of the official gcc
distribution.  Internal compiler errors are bugs in your compiler, and not
in POV-Ray or the POV-Ray source code.  As others have successfully used the
official gcc version you mentioned, it is  there is either some other bug
in your Debian system installation or the gcc you got from them.

> Is it possible to send me your .deb package?

There is no such thing.  You should use the official POV-Ray source package
from the povray.org website.  If you are unable to compile POV-Ray yourself,
I can only strongly recommend you use the binary version available on our
website.

    Thorsten

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