[Android-tools-devel] Building Jack/Jill and other Android build tools from source

[Wolfgang Wiedmeyer]

Sorry for my late reply!

Hans-Christoph Steiner writes:

> We're interested in packaging as much of the Android tools as possible,
> we'd also be interested in the manifest-merger.  We have manifest-merger
> built as a JAR in the android-platform-tools-base package, but we
> haven't really exposed it.  You can see it listed here:
>
> https://packages.debian.org/stretch/all/android-platform-tools-base/filelist

Awesome! Are there any plans to do a backport to Jessie?

> If you are interested in basing your ROM builds on Debian, then we can
> shift priorities some to work on fixing issues related to ROM builds.
> We're currently focused on getting app building working with the Debian
> packages.

I'm very interested in that and I already try to use everything that is
available in Jessie. It would be great to have all host tools either
build from source as part of Replicant or getting them from Jessie. I'm
already pretty close to that. In fact, I'm only aware of the
manifest-merger and some binaries from the NDK repo that run on the
build host and are not yet from Jessie or build from source. This is for
building a ROM image, to build the SDK a lot more is needed. I'm
focusing on the host tools for now to make the build itself more
trustworthy, but the goal is to get rid of all the prebuilts.

Replicant needs to be buildable on a GNU FSDG-compliant
distribution. While I think it's fine that my focus is currently on
Debian, it should be possible to build it on a FSDG-compliant distro
like Trisquel in the future. A dependence on the backports repo could
make this more difficult, but I don't see an other option at the moment.

Thanks,
Wolfgang

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