Re: Bug#1067907: flam3-genome segfaults on ppc64el with -ffast-math enabled

On 2025-08-16 22:29, Peter Blackman wrote:

> Hi Trupti,
> 
> I assume then, that adding -fno-finite-math-only to
> 
> export DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND =
> 
> in debian/rules should fix the problem?
> 
> 
> I tried this locally on amd64, and cannot detect
> any performance hit, so I am tempted to make this
> a general change, not just specific to ppc64el
> 
> Thanks for your assistance with this bug.
> 
> Regards,
> Peter

Hi Peter,

Yes, that's correct. I verified this by adding -fno-finite-math-only to 
debian/rules on the ppc64el machine, and it resolved the segmentation 
faults.

So, we can make this change.

Thanks
Trupti.