From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Petr Cvek <petrcvekcz@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 19:07:40 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [BUG] host-python-2.7.16 fails to build on aarch64,
 luajit fails for soft float
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Hello,

Trying to build an MIPS system on debian/sid/aarch64 machine fails to build python2 for the host. It seems the current used python has a bundled version of libffi, which doesn't yet support aarch64.

A temporary solution is to hardcopy libffi-3.3-rc0 into python source tree:

output/build/host-python-2.7.16/Modules/_ctypes/libffi

Alse luajit for the target fails to build for MIPS -msoft-float. This seems to be fixed in 2.1.0-beta3.