Re: [PATCH] gnu: patchelf: On ARM, apply experimental patch to get it working

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> The upstream 'patchelf' doesn't work on ARM, and apparently the problems
> are non-trivial to fix.  See:
>
>   https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/issues/8
>
> This commit applies the only patch I was able to find to get it (mostly)
> working.
>
> Unfortunately, I found that this modified 'patchelf' corrupted one of
> the libraries in icu4c.  For now, I've worked around this problem by
> avoiding the use of 'patchelf' in icu4c.  Ideally, I'd like to reduce
> the number of uses of 'patchelf' in our tree, preferably down to zero.
>
> In the meantime, this patch will allow us to make progress on ARM, so
> I'd like to apply it to core-updates.  The patch is only applied when
> building for ARM targets.
>
> What do you think?

I think it’s OK to apply it (it can’t hurt on non-ARM anyway.)

Thanks for the research and testing,
Ludo’.