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10 Nov 2025 15:11:13 EST (-0500)
  Re: 3.8.0-beta.2 - illegal instruction  
From: jr
Date: 10 Nov 2025 04:55:00
Message: <web.6911b5fa7b122386475fba6a6cde94f1@news.povray.org>
hi,

William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> ...
> 2) Both the default unix build and the build script jr provided use
> -ffast-math. There are a number of flaky fails due recent compiler
> changes to what -ffast-math does. Change that flag to: -fno-fast-math or
> add the flag -fno-finite-math-only to your CXXFLAGS and try another build.

in light of yesbird asking whether optimisation should be turned off perhaps, I
think it would be beneficial if (at least) the build flags for default *NIX were
appended / updated to include the '-fno-finite-math-only'.  can do ?


regards, jr.


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