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I really wish I understood the Debian change management process better. I guess I don't even really know if Raspbian is actually maintained by Debian.

But, when comparing [1] to [2], the rules file has a nice test that says "if DEB_HOST_ARCH is armhf, set the LLVM_HOST_TRIPLE to armv6k..." which seems to confirm a build configuration change.

[1] http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/l/llvm-to...

[2] http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/pool/main/l/llvm-to...

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To answer your incidental question, Raspian is maintained by Raspberry Pi folks, not Debian.

Ah, thanks! I dug a little more and found that the original test [1] from llvm-toolchain was a little different in the upstream Debian repository. It set the triple to armv7l for armhf hosts.

But I haven't yet found a similar repository on the Raspbian side. I guess I'd expect to find it within their GitHub org, but my searching didn't reveal it.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-llvm-team/llvm-toolchain/-/comm...

Yeah, Raspbian doesn't seem to be developed as a community project. There's no package tracker[1] like Debian or Ubuntu. I suppose they don't tend to diverge much, in practice.

Anyway, I suppose this all means Raspberry Pi OS/Raspbian are able to patch this, without requiring it to first be fixed in Debian or Clang.

[1] https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/1179/does-ra...

Interesting.

Uncovering this slight difference really makes me long for something like the Debian GitLab instance (or really any kind of public change tracking) to document a bug or suggest a change.

Agreed, sure looks like it's Raspbian's build configuration to fix.

You can also use https://raspi.debian.net/, which is preferable on newer Pis due to the use of arm64 (early Pis had a weird arch which sat between armel and armhf, so either you used armel and things were slow(er), or you rebuilt the packages with the extra float support (as Raspbian did)).

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