Re: wip/chromium downloadable binary package?

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On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 07:52:51PM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> wip/chromium is the only web browser that works with acceleration in my
> thinkpad x260. I have compiled it twice and it takes around 1 day in this
> machine. I have just upgraded pkgsrc packages to 2024Q4 and I have broken
> chromium cause it depends on libicui18n.so.75
> 
> netbsd-x260$ chromium
> [: 0: unexpected operator
> /usr/pkg/lib/chromium/chrome: Shared object "libicui18n.so.75" not found
> 
> 
> netbsd-x260# ls /usr/pkg/lib/libicui1*
> /usr/pkg/lib/libicui18n.a
> /usr/pkg/lib/libicui18n.so
> /usr/pkg/lib/libicui18n.so.76
> /usr/pkg/lib/libicui18n.so.76.1
> 
> netbsd-x260# pkg_info|grep icu
> icu-76.1nb1         Robust and full-featured Unicode services
> harfbuzz-icu-10.1.0 OpenType text shaping engine (ICU integration)
> 
> 
> 
> I think that I must rebuild chromium but it is a pain. Can wip/chromium
> binary package be dowloaded somewhere to speed it up?

It is not really clear from the icu version, but perhaps simply
symlinking the so.76 to so.75 will just work because what have changed
are languages details, but neither the API nor the ABI---I think I made
this acrobatics once and it worked.

Take this with a grain of salt though.
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