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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!mld From: mld@netcom.com (Matthew Deter) Subject: Anyone using POV? Can you trace the skyvase.pov file without a core dump? Message-ID: <mldCzHx7A.GHp@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 03:47:33 GMT Lines: 23 Subject says it all. I have POV 2.2 compiled (with the "unix.c" machine dependent code) for 1.1.5.1. It compiled cleanly with no errors or warnings. However, I cannot render the "skyvase.pov" file (and a few others as well). After a few scan lines, POV dumps core with a floating point exception error. I have the MATH_EMULATE option in my kernel compile turned OFF (commented out). I have a DX33 (i.e. with the FPU.) I tried both the povray.tgz pre-compiled binaries from cdrom.com (the incoming directory) as well as the above mentioned source compile. Same thing -- core dump. Most of the scenes I render are fine. But the skyvase crashes. I compiled POV on my RS/6000 (AIX) at work, and it runs fine. (faster too, hehe. :-) Traces out the skyvase with no probs. If anyone has any bright ideas, please post! Thanks. -- $$ Matthew Deter -- mld@netcom.com $$$$ $$ "Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding $$$$ star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but $$ one direction. They point to me." $$$$ $$ -- from the novel _Anthem_ by Ayn Rand