Re: Fixing the armhf linker path
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:30:53PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>At the beginning of the armhf port the hard-float dynamic linker has
>been chosen to be '/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/ld-linux.so.3'. However it
>has been standardized later as '/lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3' [1]. We have
>changed it in Debian, and added a patch to the glibc [2] to temporarily
>support both paths, until all the packages have been rebuilt with the
>new path.
>
>However we failed to do it for Wheezy. We also failed to do it for
>Jessie. So let's do it for Stretch, so that we can drop the glibc
>patches in Buster, and ensure binary compatibility with other
>distributions.
>
>For that we first need to binNMU the packages which have not been
>rebuilt since the dynamic linker change in unstable (see the list at
>the end of the mail). Then we can have a look at getting all of them
>migrated to testing.
>
>Any comments or objections?
ACK, this makes sense. I spoke with Adam a while back about doing
this. I promised I'd scan the archive for any packages still relying
on the old linker path, but I've not got to it yet - sorry. :-/
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