Hi Folks, I write an app, tomboy-ng, in Debian.
Its a free pascal app, and free pascal does not do hardening on
powerpc64el. So, I turn it off at compile (eg if [ "$CPU" =
"powerpc64le" ]; then...) and leave an override so Lintian does not get
too unhappy. Like this -
# FPC has a known bug on ppc64el that prevents hardening.
# https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/issues/39451
tomboy-ng [ppc64el] binary: hardening-no-pie
Now, I still get a lintian warning, apparently across all systems but I
strongly suspect on on powerpc64el, "hardening-no-pie".
While I once had some large Power clusters under my care, I don't have
any access to one now. Can you please tell me if the [ppc64el] is
recognised by lintian ? If not, what should it be ? Similarly, is
"powerpc64le" what I expect uname to return ? I believe it is correct
because, if wrong it would not build and I don't think that is the case.
'el' v, 'le' ? sigh ....
Thanks for any help you can give me.
David
