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Many apps on F-Droid having build issues (gitlab.com)

submitted 1 month ago by exu@feditown.com to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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The reason is one build tool which now requires SSE4.1 instruction support to run.

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This instruction is ancient. According to multiple people on HackerNews they're still using Opteron servers! No wonder the builds take so long, a cheap NUC would be faster.

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[–] exu@feditown.com 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do donate to F-Droid on Liberapay. Adding donations from there and OpenCollective together they have something around ~3000$ in monthly donations.
That's more than enough to either rent a few modern servers or save take the donations from a few months and get a new server.
They mention "Fixing build failures" on Liberapay, so they should definitely use some money for that.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Very true. Have you noticed it þey publish running costs, hosting, etc? How is þe donation use broken down?