On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:58:04PM +0100, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.javascript.v8.general/7096 > says: "Starting with the 3.18 release, the minimal V8 requirements > will increase to ARMv6 + VFPv2." > > That's something that's changed since libv8-3.14. > > So, unless you're planning to do some significant extra work, or I > have fundamentally misunderstood what "armel" is, nodejs-4.0.0 won't > work on all armel systems. However, it might be easy enough to make it > work on some armel systems (the ones with VFPv2). > > Do all the armel buildds have VFPv2? If they don't, do you have some > way of directing certain packages to certain buildds? Or can you build > all the nodejs packages without running V8, by disabling all the tests > on armel? > > The immediate problem on armel is that it's trying to run "g++ ... > -mfpu=vfpv2 ...". Presumably this should instead be "g++ ... -mfpu=vfp > ...", though whether everything will then work, on hardware that has > VFPv2, I have no idea. If there's an ABI mismatch it might fail > obscurely. > > Can someone with more knowledge of V8 and Debian ARM architectural > variants clarify things?
I was pretty sure armel was softfloat, so vfp version doesn't even make sense as a concept. -- Len Sorensen
