[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#772023: nodejs v4.0.0 released

[Robert Nelson]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Edmund Grimley Evans
<edmund.grimley.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sorry guys:
>>
>> ifeq (armel, $(DEB_HOST_ARCH))
>> CC = gcc -march=armv6
>> CXX = g++ -march=armv6
>> export CC
>> export CXX
>> endif
>>
>> That's actually not going to work for "armel" hardware...  "armel" is
>> currently built as "armv4t", so "-march=armv6" is going to cause
>> invalid instruction faults on devices running armel..
>
> That's deliberate. The V8 library requires ARMv6 + VFP2, and some
> armel systems will have that hardware, so the idea is to get nodejs
> working on those systems. (Raspberry Pi?)

Raspberry Pi users use raspbian

https://www.raspbian.org/

Which is developed by debian-arm developers, they just build off the
"armhf" packages rebuilt for ARMv6 + VFP2

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/