[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#696909: chromium segfaults on startup on armhf

[peter green]

Note: adding debian-arm to cc for feedback from other porters.

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> peter green wrote:
>
>   
>> Patch to make the package use bfd rather than gold on armel and armhf is
>> attached. I may or may not upload this as a NMU.
>>     
>
> If you'll have time to continue working on chromium:arm in the future,
> it would probably be better to just add yourself to pkg-chromium on
> alioth
Like any other package if chromium gives us problems over in raspbian I 
will try to get those problems fixed and will contribute what I discover 
back to debian where appropriate but I don't have any real knowlege of 
chromium's internals or build system nor do I have the time or 
inclination to learn them.

Anyway I have some bad news. When I try to do an armel build with bfd on 
my imx board I get.
  LINK(target) out/Release/chrome
/usr/bin/ld.bfd.real: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Memory exhausted
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I have plenty of swap so i'm pretty sure the real problem is not memory 
per-se but address space. I had the same problem with the raspbian build 
(but not with the debian armhf build) and for raspbian I worked arround 
it by building with user mode qemu on an x64 host (which provides 
significantly more virtual address space than any real arm system) but 
i'm not sure that is acceptable for debian.

Thoughts on what to do for chromium on armel? leave it broken? drop it 
completely? upload packages built with bfd under user mode qemu 
(assuming that succeeds and produces usable packages) to the archive?