[Android-tools-devel] Bug#790978: android-platform-build: library transition may be needed when GCC 5 is the default

[Simon McVittie]

On 19/08/15 10:40, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> Simon is right in that these are basically private libraries.  Upstream
> statically links them into each executable.  That didn't seem very Debian-ish,
> so instead I structured it as private shared libraries.  Nothing should link
> to these android-lib* shared libraries that is not part of the Android source.

To be honest that sounds to me like a job for static libraries and
Built-Using. If shared libraries with a stable ABI are not feasible,
static libraries are probably a better fallback position; shared
libraries with an unpredictable ABI seem like the worst of both worlds.

    S