ICU Toolset being compiled by cross compiler, not host compiler

[drumwhizz]

v8.11.3:
Linux KubuntuVM 3.19.0-59-generic #66~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 13 17:27:10 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux:
ICU_TOOLS:
Cross compiling onto arm

Same problem as this issue #7173
however, compiling without international support is NOT an option as we require that functionality.

The ICU Tools are getting built with the arm cross compiler and not the host, hence when they are run, we see the following error.

/home/phil/develop/ciws/elektron/checkit/hub/platform/obj/node-js/libs/obj/src/out/Release/icupkg: 1: /home/phil/develop/ciws/elektron/checkit/hub/platform/obj/node-js/libs/obj/src/out/Release/icupkg: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")
Options: {'verbose': 1, 'filterfile': 'icu_small.json', 'toolpath': '/home/phil/develop/ciws/elektron/checkit/hub/platform/obj/node-js/libs/obj/src/out/Release', 'deltmpdir': 1, 'outfile': 'icudt60l.dat', 'datfile': '../../deps/icu-small/source/data/in/icudt60l.dat', 'locales': 'en,root', 'endian': 'little', 'tmpdir': '/home/phil/develop/ciws/elektron/checkit/hub/platform/obj/node-js/libs/obj/src/out/Release/obj/gen/icutmp'}
icu_small.json: icutrim.py config: Trim down ICU to just a certain locale set, needed for node.js use.
FAILED: /home/phil/develop/ciws/elektron/checkit/hub/platform/obj/node-js/libs/obj/src/out/Release/icupkg -tl ../../deps/icu-small/source/data/in/icudt60l.dat /home/phil/develop/ciws/elektron/checkit/hub/platform/obj/node-js/libs/obj/src/out/Release/obj/gen/icutmp/icudt60l.dat

file /home/phil/develop/ciws/elektron/checkit/hub/platform/obj/node-js/libs/obj/src/out/Release/icupkg
/home/phil/develop/ciws/elektron/checkit/hub/platform/obj/node-js/libs/obj/src/out/Release/icupkg: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 4.4.3, BuildID[sha1]=aaf6d854098bed144ba06dbd0a7a2607a81fe022, not stripped

I can confirm the file icu-generic.gyp has the following settings:

'target_name': 'icupkg',
'toolsets': [ 'host' ],

It would appear that the build system is not picking up these settings.

Build config as follows:

CC=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-gcc CXX=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-g++
AR=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf-ar
./configure --prefix=/home/phil/develop/ciws/elektron/checkit/hub/platform/install/libs --dest-cpu=arm --dest-os=linux --with-arm-float-abi=hard --without-snapshot

[jasnell]

Hmm, looks like this was never followed up on in nearly two years :-/ .... is this still a problem?

[jasnell]

Closing, can reopen if it is necessary