Re: text relocations... graphics/ocaml-cairo won't build on 2026Q2

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost> writes:

> Well, yes...  32 bit i386 is getting more lonely with each passing year.
> I don't run it directly on any physical hardware any more, but it works
> pretty well in Xen as a PVH guest using the GENERICPAE kernel and take
> up much less disk and memory than NetBSD/amd64.

If you have some quantitative benchmarks that would be intersting on
port-xen.  A quick look shows bash taking much more "SIZE" but only
about 5% more "RSS".

I run a number of xen domUs, but for the purpose of building packages
and testing, so I'm running what machines I care about run, or will run
later.  I am not completely free of i386, but the number of such
machines has dropped a fair bit, and the remaining ones don't do
anything gui-ish.

> I wasn't actually using ocaml directly, it was a part of the unison
> build, which I do use.  In particular, the lablgtk option in unison
> pulls in x11/ocaml-lablgtk which is what ocaml-cairo uses.  Since I
> don't need lablgtk support in unison, I disabled it.

Indeed; it's a tough call if the option should be default on or not.
Nobody has put in the effort to make it a split package, not even the
maintainer!