anyone with a Mac running 10.7 or 10.8?

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Sun Jan 1 12:14:44 PST 2017


> On Jan 1, 2017, at 12:02 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at macieira.org> wrote:
> 
> Em domingo, 1 de janeiro de 2017, às 09:48:01 BRST, Dirk Hohndel escreveu:
>>> On Jan 1, 2017, at 6:58 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at macieira.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> It is the old AVX bug. VXORPS is an AVX instruction (that V is the tell)
>> 
>> And this library comes from OpenSSL which we get from HomeBrew. I can
>> already see that I will hate where all this will take me, but I appreciate
>> that thanks to Robert's access (if somewhat limited) to such an old machine
>> we got reminded of the issue...
>> 
>> Doing some more research, it seems that not a lot of Macs should fall into
>> the narrow overlap of "able to run 10.7 and don't have AVX". But I'll see
>> what I can do.
> 
> I think HomeBrew by default builds targetting the local machine (-
> march=native), which makes the binaries unsuitable for distribution. There's a 
> switch somewhere to make it build generic binaries.

I identified the four libraries that had AVX instructions included and manually
rebuilt them with that disabled (which took a few attempt for openssl).

Robert, I know it's getting late, but could you possibly try

http://subsurface-divelog.org/downloads/daily/Subsurface-4.5.96-59-g7312cfc2d047-10.7.dmg

on that old Mac Mini for me?

Thanks

/D


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