Re: Fixing the armhf linker path
On 16/12/15 23:30, 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?
No problem for me, but let's wait for the rebuilds at least until after the Perl
transition.
Cheers,
Emilio
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