[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:
                                           |  needs_revision
 Priority:  Medium                         |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser       |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                         |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-rbm, TorBrowserTeam201904  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by JeremyRand):

 This issue is becoming confusing to follow due to the existence of two
 different patches (ARM target with x86 host, versus ARM target with ARM
 host).  May I request that this issue be split into 2 issues?  Both
 patches are independently useful, and I think they should both be merged
 when complete (regardless of which is completed first).  Having 2 separate
 issues for them makes it easier to follow the discussion, and allows the
 issues to be independently closed as fixed whenever the respective patches
 are merged.  (I don't particularly care which patch is assigned to a new
 issue, or if both patches are assigned to a new issue and this issue
 becomes a parent/metaissue.)

 Meanwhile, updated ESR 60 patch (this is the "ARM target with x86 host"
 patch) at https://notabug.org/JeremyRand/tor-browser-build/src/armhf-esr60
 .  This is tested to build a Tor Browser binary that runs fine on my Asus
 C201, and is based on `tor-browser-build` master branch as of circa a week
 before Tor migrated to ESR 68.  I've done a lot of cleanup of the code, so
 hopefully this will be a lot easier to review than my previous patches.
 Still not yet in a state where I'd recommend considering it for merging.
 In particular, I haven't yet resolved Georg's concern about the network
 being enabled for the Firefox and Tor build containers.

 I also now have an ESR 68 patch at https://notabug.org/JeremyRand/tor-
 browser-build/src/armhf-esr68-draft .  It doesn't build yet, and I suspect
 that rebasing it against a newer version of `tor-browser-build` master
 branch is likely to fix a lot of the build issues I'm running into.  I get
 the impression that `tor-browser-build` was in a pretty bad state at the
 point I rebased against, which was August 8.  (Georg, can you confirm that
 the August 8 version of `tor-browser-build` master branch is expected to
 have a lot of problems?)

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