[Bug]: intltool: should not build on device

[mguinhos]

Problem description

Compilation of intltool on device is slow and expensive

What steps will reproduce the bug?

pkg install intltool -y

What is the expected behavior?

The package must must install without compiling on device

System information

termux-info:

Application version:
0.118.0
Packages CPU architecture:
aarch64
Subscribed repositories:
# sources.list
deb https://dl.kcubeterm.com/termux-main/ stable main
# x11-repo (sources.list.d/x11.list)
deb https://packages.termux.org/apt/termux-x11 x11 main
Updatable packages:
All packages up to date
Android version:
11
Kernel build information:
Linux localhost 4.19.87-22307827 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Sep 8 10:55:38 KST 2021 aarch64 Android
Device manufacturer:
samsung
Device model:
SM-N981B

[thunder-coding]

I am against the idea to disable on-device compilation of heavy packages. On-device builds may be used to detect problems that occur only during cross compilation as well as for other variety of reasons. The most I can agree on is to issue a warning for such packages

[xtkoba]

@thunder-coding, that is not the point. The author means that intltool invokes cpan in the postinst script:

termux-packages/packages/intltool/build.sh

Lines 12 to 22 in 7a359b6

	termux_step_create_debscripts() {
	cat <<- POSTINST_EOF > ./postinst
	#!$TERMUX_PREFIX/bin/bash
	set -e
	echo "Sideloading Perl XML::Parser..."
	cpan install XML::Parser
	exit 0
	POSTINST_EOF
	}

[Grimler91]

This would require porting (at least) LWP::UserAgent, Encode::Locale, File::Listing, HTTP::Date, Time::Zone, HTTP::Date, HTML::Entities, HTML::Tagset, HTTP::Headers, IO::HTML, LWP::MediaTypes.

I don't think this would be worth the effort considering that:

• intltool is more or less obsolete, in favor of gettext
• perl modules are generally annoying to cross-compile
• cpan install XML::Parser works without issues

intltool should depend on make and clang though, those are needed for successful installation.

[xtkoba]

Also should depend on libexpat.