Build Problem on arm

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 10:52:54AM +0100, Dirk Hünniger wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Dirk,

> my name is Dirk Hünniger, I am the maintainer of a package called
> mediawiki2latex. It has status "Build-Attempted" on the architectures armel
> and armhf while compiling properly on all other officially supported
> architectures. From the error message I assume that the linker is missing in
> the build environment. What can I do to resolve the issues.  Georges
> Khaznadar has already issued a giveback a few days ago, which didn't resolve
> the situation. I think at first the problem in the build environment has to
> be fixed and after that another giveback is needed.

this is due to
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1612189/accepted-binutils-244-1-source-into-unstable/

combined with

ghc (9.6.6-1~exp5) experimental; urgency=medium
  * Use gold on arm{el,hf}

This should be fixed on the binutils or ghc side.

> Yours Dirk

cu
Adrian

> PS: See build log below
> 
> >     debian/rules override_dh_auto_configure
> > make[1]: Entering directory '/build/reproducible-path/mediawiki2latex-8.26'
> > ghc /build/reproducible-path/mediawiki2latex-8.26/Setup.lhs
> > [1 of 2] Compiling Main             ( /build/reproducible-path/mediawiki2latex-8.26/Setup.lhs, /build/reproducible-path/mediawiki2latex-8.26/Setup.o )
> > [2 of 2] Linking /build/reproducible-path/mediawiki2latex-8.26/Setup
> > 
> > <no location info>: error:
> >      Warning: Couldn't figure out linker information!
> >               Make sure you're using GNU ld, GNU gold or the built in OS X linker, etc.
> > collect2: fatal error: cannot find ‘ld’
> > compilation terminated.
> > ghc-9.6.6: `arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc' failed in phase `Linker'. (Exit code: 1)
> > make[1]: *** [debian/rules:5: override_dh_auto_configure] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/mediawiki2latex-8.26'
> > make: *** [debian/rules:14: binary-arch] Error 2