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Subject: Re: patchelf apparently needs extensive changes to work on ARM
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 17:16:43 +0100
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Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Upstream 'patchelf' doesn't work on ARM.
> Here's the upstream bug report:
>
>   https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/issues/8
>
> I had to apply a rather large patch from a fork
> of 'patchelf' to get it working:
>
>   https://github.com/sriemer/patchelf/commit/0a96239cea6b97b9a0fff80da576=
e58ca2dfb2a2
>
> For now, I've applied this patch on the 'wip-armhf' branch in commit
> 8de9362f3.  If anyone has a better suggestion, I'm all ears.

PatchELF is used only to augment the RUNPATH, and in theory (guix elf)
should be able to handle that, although perhaps not conveniently.  The
long-term plan should be to use it.  WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.