[SailfishDevel] SailfishOS SDK April update available tomorrow. [update:all installers and repositories are online]

[Juha Kallioinen]

On 18.04.2014 14:35, christopher.lamb at thurweb.ch wrote:
> Hi Juha and Mikael
>
> For what it is worth, to kill some time while a batch of beer is 
> brewing, I installed Kubuntu 14.04 in a VM, and then the April SDK.
>
> In my case the Emulator does work in Kubuntu 14.04 - though it does 
> take inordinately long to do so (maybe down to the multiple layers of 
> VMs.
>
> The mother host is an Mac Pro 2008 running Mavericks and Professional 
> Version 6.0.3 (1747349).
>
> In that I did I fresh install of Kubuntu 14_04 64 bit.
>
> Into this I installed VirtualBox 4.3.10 for Linux (package for Ubuntu 
> 13.04 ("Raring Ringtail") / 13.10 ("Saucy Salamander") AMD), and the 
> April SailfishOS SDK.
>
> Having installed everything, the Emulator starts, and I eventually get 
> a GUI, and am able to deploy a demo "Hello Sailors" app.
>

Hi Chris,

thanks for testing! I think your Mac Pro from 2008 is a bit too old to 
encounter this problem. The problematic instruction set extension 'AVX' 
was introduced in 2011 in Intel CPUs. My Mac is from late 2011 and I got 
the problem when running Ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04 in VMware, but not in the 
native Mac SDK 1404.

We had this same problem in earlier SDKs and it presented itself more 
easily back then (just on my linux laptop) and was patched in the 
mesa/llvm packages. Those packages were updated some time after the 
previous SDK release and the patches were dropped, because it looked 
like the problem was gone.

But here we are... reapplying the AVX patches makes the problem go away 
at least in in my Mac + VMware environment.

Also, as you report, running the SDK inside another virtual machine 
makes it run really slowly.

Best regards,
  Juha