Re: Bug#1105090: firefox: Please build with gcc and g++ on ppc64

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <23fdeb08e8a95715784577cdac103a9fbff28470.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
On Sun, 2025-05-11 at 23:43 +1000, Damien Stewart wrote:
> Is that a big issue? I got the impression Debian PPC64 was ABI2 only?

The little-endian port uses ELF-ABI v2, the big-endian port uses v1.

> It's just that when I found my new Debian install crashing it came down 
> to an ABI issue. As soon as I used an ABI2 kernel my problems went away. 
> System, apt and all other binaries started working. When I checked the 
> vmlinux 6.12.17-powerpc64 kernel from Debian GNU/Linux 12.0.0 "Sid" - 
> Unofficial ppc64 NETINST 20250316 on the net installer it was ABI2.

This is about userland, not the kernel.

Adrian

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