Re: Building armel on arm64

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

> On Jul 30, 2018, at 10:42 PM, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> 
> Also, this machine does have neon so it's not even armhf baseline.  And so
> many packages compile but don't test.  Thus, regressions from building on
> arm64 need not just hardware but also manpowers to detect.

But why should compiling ARMv7 on ARMv8 automatically change the baseline when it’s actually a hardwired configure option in gcc?

By the same logic, lots of the packages we build on ARMv7 machines for armel wouldn’t work on ARMv5.

Plus, we can build on the experience that openSUSE made with building ARMv6/7 on ARMv8. Why are we ignoring that?

Adrian