Retire a package from Fedora i686 (not x86_64)

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Sat Nov 7 03:24:22 UTC 2015


On 11/06/2015 09:50 PM, Stuart Gathman wrote:
> On 11/06/2015 02:11 PM, Germano Massullo wrote:
>>
>> For example, SSE3 instructions set is one of the minimum requirements
>> and 99% of 32 bit only CPUs do not support it. Only Pentium 4 >=
>> Prescott architecture supports it.
>>
> For that kind of thing, add a runtime test for required CPU features at
> startup.
That's what they actually do.

cf. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1278064#c14
$ darktable
[dt_init] unfortunately we depend on SSE3 instructions at this time.
[dt_init] please contribute a backport patch (or buy a newer processor).


> That may not be necessary if the app already fails in a friendly way on
> old CPUs (as opposed to hanging or mysterious crashes).

Ralf



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