Re: chromium on arm (was: About Jessie and missing packages)
On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:33:29 PM EEST, peter green wrote:
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696909
for more information on the many issues we had trying to keep
chromium working on armhf.
If there is to be a supported chromium package in raspbian
going forward it needs to be dealt with on the Debian side
first. Unfortunately chromium seems to be the package from hell.
It looks like since that time that the Debian chromium
maintainers have tried to reenable armhf support on two
occasions (in versions 28.0.1500.71-1 and 29.0.1547.57-3+exp1)
but in both cases the package failed to build. ccing the
chromium maintainers to see if they have any comments.
Are you recompiling jessie packages for better armv7 support?
The whole point of raspbian is to provide support for armv6. If
you want armv7 optimised packages use Debian armhf.
Looks like ubuntu has chromium in armhf packages:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/41.0.2272.76-0ubuntu1.1134
The changes to enable armhf build seems quite small (bunch of arm related
defines and unsetting sysroot). I haven't tested if the binaries ubuntu
builds actually work.
Riku
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