A scratch build works fine on Fedora 27...
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In file included from /builddir/build/BUILD/oiio-Release-1.8.8/src/include/OpenImageIO/imageio.h:59,
from /builddir/build/BUILD/oiio-Release-1.8.8/src/include/OpenImageIO/imagebuf.h:46,
from /builddir/build/BUILD/oiio-Release-1.8.8/src/libOpenImageIO/imagebufalgo_compare.cpp:41:
/builddir/build/BUILD/oiio-Release-1.8.8/src/libOpenImageIO/imagebufalgo_compare.cpp: In instantiation of 'bool OpenImageIO_v1_8::color_count_(const OpenImageIO_v1_8::ImageBuf&, OpenImageIO_v1_8::atomic_ll*, int, const float*, const float*, OpenImageIO_v1_8::ROI, int) [with T = float; OpenImageIO_v1_8::atomic_ll = std::atomic<long long int>]':
/builddir/build/BUILD/oiio-Release-1.8.8/src/libOpenImageIO/imagebufalgo_compare.cpp:546:5: required from here
/builddir/build/BUILD/oiio-Release-1.8.8/src/include/OpenImageIO/platform.h:191:36: internal compiler error: in maybe_undo_parenthesized_ref, at cp/semantics.c:1736
#define ALLOCA(type, size) ((size) != 0 ? ((type*)alloca((size) * sizeof (type))) : nullptr)
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/builddir/build/BUILD/oiio-Release-1.8.8/src/libOpenImageIO/imagebufalgo_compare.cpp:501:24: note: in expansion of macro 'ALLOCA'
long long *n = ALLOCA (long long, ncolors);
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