Bug#980963: dpkg: Please add ARC architecture

[Vineet Gupta]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 19:04:36 +0100 Helmut Grohne <helmut at subdivi.de> wrote:
 > On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 07:25:35PM +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
 > > Any chances to get updates on this one some time soon?
 >
 > No. The triplet cannot be changed once added. Therefore, the addition is
 > often deferred. The absence of the triplet can easily be worked around.
 > A bootstrap can be prototyped already. A major missing piece though is
 > glibc 2.32 being packaged in Debian. That likely is a prerequisite for
 > resolving this bug.
 >
 > Things that often need architecture-specific support for a new
 > architecture include:
 > * guile-X.Y (cross support)
 > * libgc
 > * libxcrypt (symbols)
 > * nspr
 > * openssl (packaging)
 >
 > Are any of these fixed or confirmed working for arc?
 >
 > I suggest that you coordinate with Vineet Gupta as he is already working
 > on this.

The current WIP is at

https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/rebootstrap.git

The deal breaker is glibc support since debian is at 2.31 while ARC port was merged in 2.32. So here we patch in the entire ARC port :-)