[tor-bugs] #12631 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Tor Browser for ARM architecture

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#12631: Tor Browser for ARM architecture
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 Reporter:  mttp                      |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  project                   |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                    |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                    |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-rbm                   |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by gk):

 Replying to [comment:20 JeremyRand]:
 > Updated my rbm descriptors for ARM to work with ESR 60.
 https://notabug.org/JeremyRand/tor-browser-build/src/armhf-esr60 (the
 armhf-esr60 branch).  Docs still at
 https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Porting/Tor_Browser .  One noteworthy thing
 is that, due to what is probably
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1452128 , I needed to upgrade
 to gcc 7.3.0 / binutils 2.29.1.  I don't know if that's a dealbreaker for
 Tor (and I haven't carefully tested whether the upgrade breaks anything on
 non-ARM platforms).  Can anyone from Tor comment on whether the specific
 gcc / binutils versions used by Tor Browser were chosen for a particular
 reason, and whether upgrading them would be considered if it's the most
 straightforward way to get ARM to work?

 Thanks for working on the ARM port, really appreciated! Updating GCC to
 7.3.0 is probably no problem. Binutils 2.29.1 is trickier, though, as with
 binutils 2.26 we have a hard to fix reproducibility issue on Windows which
 currently prevents upgrading (see: #26148). We could think about using
 2.29.1 just for ARM as a workaround (in case there are no reproducibility
 issues involved here and the Mozilla bug does not get fixed meanwhile)

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