[fpc-devel] Debian discussion of ARM flags

[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.

 > 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:

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