On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Niels Möller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>  It was reported that nettle crashes with SIGILL on an armv7 system.
>> I've gather some info from the report [0], but let me know if you need
>> anything else.
> It would be good to know how nettle was built, configure flags,
> configure output, etc. And which version.
>> My hunch is that this is neon related, and that the system that was
>> used for compilation supported it but the final system doesn't.
> That's a possible explanation, by default neon would be enabled if it's
> supported on the build system.
>> I'll disable neon support in the fedora builds and see how it
>> works out.
> For a binary distribution, it should be built with --disable-arm-neon,

Done that and it fixed the issue. The user had no neon support in the CPU.

> or --enable-fat. If the failing library *was* built with --enable-fat,
> there might be some problem with the run-time detection.

I plan to use --enable-fat on fedora. I seem to have some issues with
3.1.1 (crashes on x86_64) when a "hardened" build is enabled
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages). I will
investigate further.

regards,
Nikos
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