Re: cross-compiling textproc/icu

[Brook Milligan <brook%nmsu.edu@localhost>]

> On Sep 14, 2023, at 3:24 PM, Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost> wrote:
> 
> * On 2023-09-14 at 21:43 BST, Brook Milligan wrote:
> 
>> What are better ideas?
>> 
>> Should the cross build extract twice and build twice?
> 
> I've done this before when we used to support multiarch (bundling both 32-bit and 64-bit builds into a single package).  If someone wants to pick out any bits that might be useful then the main commit is here:
> 
>  https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FTritonDataCenter%2Fpkgsrc%2Fcommit%2F247561d34029d779400c9002e654b8ec1e0a70ca&data=05%7C01%7Cbrook%40biology.nmsu.edu%7C5c19d62f3e854947093108dbb568f32d%7Ca3ec87a89fb84158ba8ff11bace1ebaa%7C1%7C0%7C638303234592465175%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3DPvfbLzMVotqAZCrQjXisRi%2BxFJ4XIIKOa4Au0xzWY%3D&reserved=0

Any thoughts on whether or not this is a reasonable thing to implement in main pkgsrc?  Too complex?  Useful?

Cheers,
Brook