[RFC] Linaro Toolchain for Android and NDK

[Jim Huang]

On 1 March 2011 18:07, Andrew Stubbs <andrew.stubbs at linaro.org> wrote:
> On 01/03/11 07:00, Jim Huang wrote:
>>> I think thats fine. however, how do we ensure that we have patches
>>> >  that always apply to both release/snapshots? do we maintain branches
>>> >  for gcc-patches.git in case you need two versions of patch X if the
>>> >  linaro gcc codebase diverged?
>>
>> I might need help from toolchain WG.
>
> I aim to have Android support in Linaro GCC soon, but I lack the ability to
> test it. In fact, I have wanted to have Android support in both February's
> and March's release, but it isn't going to happen now.

hi Andrew,

Thanks for replying.

> I did build a Linaro GCC with the Android patches installed, and it did
> appear to build a lot of the Android tree, but the Android build is broken.
> There are problems with -Werror, but even when you work around those, it
> still won't build. :(
>
> When somebody gives me a properly patched Android tree, that will build
> out-of-the-box with GCC 4.6, then I will be unblocked, and Linaro GCC will
> have Android support shortly afterwards. :)

Jeremy and I will help you to resolve Android build issue later.  At the moment,
you can safely remove "-Werror" from Android build system.

Regards,
-jserv