[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, TorBrowserTeam201904R  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by gk):

 Replying to [comment:26 JeremyRand]:
 > (My current code is still at ​https://notabug.org/JeremyRand/tor-
 browser-build/src/armhf-esr60 (the armhf-esr60 branch); and docs are still
 at ​https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Porting/Tor_Browser .)

 I skimmed the changes on the branch, nice work! A couple of high-level
 comments:

 1) We should start to get the compiler related things right. I don't
 understand why you need to add a `gcc-cross` project in addition to the
 `gcc` project. Cross-compiling GCC so it is usable for a given target
 should just get included in the `gcc` project both in its `config` and
 `build` file I think.

 2) Why do we have a `var/linux-cross` + a `var/linux-arm` target? It seems
 it would be worthwhile to stick to the OS-arch pattern and if we think we
 want to generate a more abstract target later on that's easily doable
 (like we have e.g. `var/linux` and `var/linux-x86_64` defined already to
 have the option to apply general things to all the Linux arches and have
 arch-specific things, though)

 3) Allowing networking during the build part does not fly. What are the
 needs for that?

 4) FTE is going away soon, just ignore it (and set the `fteproxy` switch
 in `rbm.conf` in the meantime). It's fine to ignore snowflake for now,
 too. There is a `snowflake` switch you can set in `rbm.conf` as well.

 5) Could you clean up your patches substantially and reorder them, so that
 you maybe have patches per project? It's hard to give more fine-grained
 feedback otherwise.

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