[Android-tools-devel] Bug#960897: Update android-platform-external-libunwind and build for ppc64el

[Timothy Pearson]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "殷啟聰 | Kai-Chung Yan" <seamlik at debian.org>
> To: 960897 at bugs.debian.org, "Timothy Pearson" <tpearson at raptorengineering.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2020 11:13:32 PM
> Subject: Re: Update android-platform-external-libunwind and build for ppc64el

>> According to the source trees at both
>> https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/android-libunwind and
>> https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libunwind/, ppc64[le]
>> systems are supported.
> 
> I doubt it. Android never officially supported architectures other than x86, ARM
> or MIPS. And these days MIPS support is being removed. The source tree for
> PowerPC is probably from the original `libunwind` and never touched by Google.
> 
> Even if it builds successfully in PowerPC, I'm quite sure it was never tested.

Is there any reason not to build the ppc64el version though, especially since there is no ppc64el Android version in existence?  It's blocking adb, which I can confirm works fine on ppc64el *if* manually compiled.