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reprobuild: cross-compile armv7 tarballs

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Authored by Níckolas Goline

83/100 · Strong
reprobuild: cross-compile armv7 tarballs

armv7 cannot build natively like arm64: cln-grpc's build script takes
protoc from protoc-bin-vendored, which ships no armv7 binary, so the build
panics there.

Add tools/repro-build.armv7.sh, which cross-compiles instead. It runs in
the amd64 cl-repro-<dist> image, adds armhf from ports.ubuntu.com (same
release pocket, updates and security still disabled), and pins the
arm-linux-gnueabihf toolchain and armhf libraries the same way the other
scripts pin theirs. The Rust plugins build for
armv7-unknown-linux-gnueabihf.

The build runs a few armv7 programs (configure tests,
tools/headerversions), so the host needs qemu-arm registered with
binfmt_misc.

bin-Ubuntu-<dist>-armv7 runs the amd64 image with REPRO_ARCH=armv7, and
the tarball lands in release-armv7/.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
✓ Descriptive subject✓ Names a concrete action or component✓ Provides detailed explanatory context✓ Mentions testing or verification✓ Names security-relevant behavior explicitly
The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit adds a new build script and updates Dockerfiles so that Core Lightning release tarballs can be produced for 32-bit ARM (armv7) devices. It is purely a build-system/infrastructure change for cross-compilation and does not alter any wallet, networking, or cryptographic code. There is no indication it fixes or introduces a security vulnerability.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as a normal build-system enhancement. If reviewing, verify the pinned SHA-256 sums match the intended Ubuntu package versions and that the cross-compilation flags are consistent with the existing repro-build scripts.

Security signals we found

No strong security signals were identified.

Risk score

Why this scored 14/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 0/30
Exploitability 0/25
Stealth signal 0/15
Affected reach 0/15
Confidence 9/10
Evidence quality 5/5
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