On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 09:57:02PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: >Hello, > >for the package sparse I have to distinguish armel and armhf. The reason >is that sparse parses system headers and so has to know which cpp >symbols to define. Usually it uses uname -m to distinguish platforms but >that isn't suitable to tell armel and armhf apart. > >For armhf I need to define __ARM_PCS_VFP but that must be absent on armel.
Right, that makes sense. >For upstreaming a fix it would be great if the test would not be Debian >specific. That's likely to be difficult - it's perfectly possible to have headers etc. for both on a single system with multi-arch (for example). It's an ABI choice, not a hardware difference. What are you trying to work this out for? Package build time? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Since phone messaging became popular, the young generation has lost the ability to read or write anything that is longer than one hundred and sixty characters." -- Ignatios Souvatzis
