Bug#763755: blender: SIGILL on startup

[Matteo F. Vescovi]

Control: tag -1 + upstream

Hi!

On 2014-10-02 at 13:54 (CEST), Daniele Forsi wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> could Blender be changed to check if it is running on a supported CPU
> and fail with a nicely informative error message?
 
At [1] you can see that the former patch that used to check about the
compatibility of the CPU with Blender has been dropped since upstream
developers declared that a better (and elegant) solution was found and
that patch wasn't useful anymore.

> On my PC blender is terminated on startup with:
> Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.

Well, probably the upstream approach hasn't been efficient enough to
prevent all the cases. I already got in touch with them and we'll see
how to solve this long-persecuting issue.

Cheers.


[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/blender.git/commit/?id=fce9104b648ad2d81fc82362eb9f377c6eb5641d

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Matteo F. Vescovi
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