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Debian discussion of ARM flags

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Mark Morgan Lloyd

I presume that somebody's aware of
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=695547 which seems to have attracted a bit of discussion recently.

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I'm one of the ARM porters, and I've recently run a scan of binaries in the archive to check on the state of the binaries for armel and armhf. As part of the ARM ABI, binaries (libraries and programs) are expected to specify ELF flags to specify whether they're using the hard-float or soft-float ABI (if they care specifically - some don't). I've found a few fpc-using packages (both under your maintenance and not) that appear to get this wrong, which suggests that there might be a toolchain issue here in fpc and friends. My scanner is telling me that the following armhf packages are broken:
Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

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