Re: BUG #1311: Can't crosscompile

Added to TODO list:

    * Allow cross-compiling by generating the zic database on the
      target system


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Tom Lane wrote:
> "PostgreSQL Bugs List" <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org> writes:
> > Quick and dirty [and not really portable] patch:
>
> s/not really/not at all/
>
> AFAICS this would take some fairly significant surgery in configure to
> even have a prayer of working --- there's no reason to assume that the
> host compiler has the same flags as the cross-compiler, for example.
>
> An even bigger issue is that the files generated by zic might not be
> machine-independent --- I haven't looked closely but they certainly
> are binary data.  If they are dependent on endianness or sizeof(int)
> or whatever then this approach won't work at all.
>
> In a cross-compile situation it'd probably be better to install the zic
> executable and then run it later on the target system to generate the
> timezone data files.  Not sure what sort of makefile hacking might be
> needed to bring this into the realm of possibility.
>
>             regards, tom lane
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