Ale Terlevich writes:

>   Hi,

>    I've just tried compiling povray3. Well, it beats working right?
> :)

>   Anyway, I get the same error as with the old povray2.2, i.e. a
> segmentation fault as soon as a ray hits an object.

[core dump deleted]

>   Is this a problem with the FPE?  I seem to recall someone saying
> that they didn;t get this with an FPA fitted.

>   Has anyone managed to get povray to work without one?

I don't recall what people have said about this before, but when I
compiled Pov2.2 (without X support) it worked (slowly).  When I applied
the FTpov patches I got the problem described above - the patches have
worked on every other machine I've tried.

Ciaran.