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

submitted 4 months 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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[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 4 months ago

i'm surprised they're using prebuilt binary toolchains

[-] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 5 points 4 months ago

There have been efforts to create free rebuilds of the SDK: https://forum.f-droid.org/t/open-source-android-development-tools/30599/136

this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2025

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