[tlbuild] Bug#678604: lilypond FTBFS on armhf

[Norbert Preining]

Dear Peter, dear TL Build list,

here at Debian we got a report about problems with ARM arch.
As we have several people building for arm here, do you have
any comments?

On Do, 28 Jun 2012, peter green wrote:
>> The problem is that metafont segfaults on armhf. This looks to be some
>> odd kind of architecture specific problem in armhf's malloc, which
>> I've asked for assistance with on debian-arm, but have received
>> none.[1]
> Given that lilypond built successfully in raspbian and arm EABI uses a 1
> in the LSB of a code address to represent thumb mode code I wonder if this
> is a thumb related glitch.
>
> As such I am trialing building texlive-bin in arm mode (-marm compiler  
> flag).
> If I can successfully build lilypond with the new texlive-binaries I  
> intend to
> make texlive-bin use -marm.

Best wishes

Norbert
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