"I need a way to cross-compile plan9port" would have been a much more productive opening statement than "I'm going to modularize plan9port".
I think you should be able to cross-compile it pretty easily if you already have a cross-compilation environment set up. 1. Build a local plan9port tree, put it in the chroot environment, and put it at the end of your chrooted $PATH. 2. Edit that tree's 9 script to override $PLAN9 with the path to the local tree (1 line change). 3. Extract a fresh tree somewhere else. 4. run SYSNAME=xxx OBJTYPE=xxx INSTALL in the fresh tree. (assumes I haven't tried this (I find it much easier just to set up a dedicated machine of the right OS and architecture and use its native tools), but having the local copy of the tools in the path before running INSTALL should make it use those instead of the ones it builds. That sounds like a lot less work than your original proposal. Good luck. Russ
