Building for qemuarm without thumb enabled is using -march=armv5e which isn't recognized here. Fix it by adding __ARM_ARCH_5E__. v0.12.2 branch of node doesn't seem to be affected, because it's using different version of v8 Upstream-Status: Pending Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa diff -uNr node-v0.12.2/deps/v8/src/base/atomicops_internals_arm_gcc.h node-v0.12.2-fix/deps/v8/src/base/atomicops_internals_arm_gcc.h --- node-v0.12.2/deps/v8/src/base/atomicops_internals_arm_gcc.h 2015-04-01 00:13:01.000000000 +0200 +++ node-v0.12.2-fix/deps/v8/src/base/atomicops_internals_arm_gcc.h 2015-04-28 14:30:43.119509207 +0200 @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ // This tests against any known ARMv5 variant. #elif defined(__ARM_ARCH_5__) || defined(__ARM_ARCH_5T__) || \ - defined(__ARM_ARCH_5TE__) || defined(__ARM_ARCH_5TEJ__) + defined(__ARM_ARCH_5E__) || defined(__ARM_ARCH_5TE__) || defined(__ARM_ARCH_5TEJ__) // The kernel also provides a helper function to perform an atomic // compare-and-swap operation at the hard-wired address 0xffff0fc0.