It works when built with gold 2.23 on an armv6+ hardware host (bug 696284). This bug is also a dup, and was njotriced shortely after chromium 22 was made to build again on arm (ftbfs since chromium 18) due to my patches.
peter green <plugw...@p10link.net> wrote: >Note: adding debian-arm to cc for feedback from other porters. > >Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Hi Peter, >> >> peter green wrote: >> >> >>> Patch to make the package use bfd rather than gold on armel and >armhf is >>> attached. I may or may not upload this as a NMU. >>> >> >> If you'll have time to continue working on chromium:arm in the >future, >> it would probably be better to just add yourself to pkg-chromium on >> alioth >Like any other package if chromium gives us problems over in raspbian I > >will try to get those problems fixed and will contribute what I >discover >back to debian where appropriate but I don't have any real knowlege of >chromium's internals or build system nor do I have the time or >inclination to learn them. > >Anyway I have some bad news. When I try to do an armel build with bfd >on >my imx board I get. > LINK(target) out/Release/chrome >/usr/bin/ld.bfd.real: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Memory >exhausted >collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > >I have plenty of swap so i'm pretty sure the real problem is not memory > >per-se but address space. I had the same problem with the raspbian >build >(but not with the debian armhf build) and for raspbian I worked arround > >it by building with user mode qemu on an x64 host (which provides >significantly more virtual address space than any real arm system) but >i'm not sure that is acceptable for debian. > >Thoughts on what to do for chromium on armel? leave it broken? drop it >completely? upload packages built with bfd under user mode qemu >(assuming that succeeds and produces usable packages) to the archive? > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >listmas...@lists.debian.org >Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50f46ff0.6080...@p10link.net -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
