Hi,
https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/LinaroAndroidBuildService has been updated with these instructions about a new build option:
EXTERNAL_TARBALL
Use to request that the build system fetch an archive from the location that you set EXTERNAL_TARBALL to and unpack it into build/external_tarballs (build is the build root directory. This exact path can be written as $BUILD_SCRIPT_ROOT/../../build/external_tarballs). Multiple archives can be requested, separated by ";", e.g. EXTERNAL_TARBALL="http://foo.com/ball1.tar.gz%3Bhttp://foo.com/ball2.tar.bz2"
There has been some discussion about if the path that is being unpacked to is easy to use. We could modify the build scripts so we either set an environment variable to point to where we unpack to ($EXT_TARBALL_DIR) or have a fixed path in /tmp that we soft link from (/tmp/external_tarballs). If you have a strong opinion, please let me know.
Thanks,