aapt2 fails to run on the buildserver - AGP 8.12.0-alpha07 is latest compatible (#593) · Issues · F-Droid / admin · GitLab
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Affected apps under this label: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/?label_name%5B%5D=AGP-8.12.0 Between 8.12.0-alpha07 and 8.12.0-alpha08, aapt2 started to want a CPU that supports BMI1, CPUID, SSE4_1, SSSE3 ...

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

Rant

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.

  • exu@feditown.comOPEnglish
    3·
    14 days ago

    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.

    • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
      1·
      13 days ago

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