Nicolas Calimet wrote:

>     Note that the -ffast-math and -m3dnow options are not part of
> the official povray-3.6.1 configure script, but were most likely added
> by the gentoo folks.  The former will be in official 3.6.2 - it was not
> included so far, but indeed works without problem.  The latter has no
> effect at all (identical binaries with and without the option on AMD
> K7/K8 platforms) and is therefore useless; same for -mmmx.
> 
>     - NC

No. --fast-math was not added by Gentoo package maintainer.
Using the Gentoo version got me in trouble with
Christoph....so I downloaded & used the default tarball.

It was the Megapov script from Christoph which supplied
the --fast-math.

WdW

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