Bug#915333: git-annex: Illegal Instruction on armel (Fujitsu Q700 like QNAP TS-21x/TS-22x)

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 09:35:51AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sat 27 Apr 2019 at 11:14AM -04, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
> 
> > ... and it looks like it's a bug / limitation in ghc itself...
> 
> Right, it has been reassigned to ghc.
> 
> > From the Toronto BSP's point of view, this is looking more and more like
> > a "well, this means we won't support that hardware for git-annex" kind
> > of bug.

The "too buggy for shipping in a stable release" kind of bug.

> This would mean reassigning it to git-annex, wouldn't it?

No, there is nothing specific to git-annex here.

It means that likely all Haskell packages are currently miscompiled
and won't work on the armel baseline.

git-annex is just the most popular of these, so several people 
running unstable/testing on the armel baseline quickly noticed.

The vast majority of users would only run into these miscompilations
if it doesn't get fixed before buster is released.

> Sean Whitton

cu
Adrian

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