I pushed a change to debian/rules that should do the trick: https://salsa.debian.org/dotnet-team/mono/-/commit/6b899c0e0
As I have no easy access to armel hardware right now, would you be willing to give a try to building mono from the current master branch on Salsa, and report if it does indeed fix the problem you reported?
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