On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM David Bannon <dban...@internode.on.net> wrote: > > 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 ....
Related, get an account on the GCC Compile Farm. The CFarm offers different architectures and operating systems to test free software, including PowerPC machines. See <https://portal.cfarm.net/> and "Request an Account." You can browse the list of machines at <https://portal.cfarm.net/machines/list/>. Jeff
