[Android-tools-devel] Bug#976891: fastboot exits with "fake placeholder until fastboot builds" message

[Roger Shimizu]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 5:38 AM Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
> Thanks for jumping in Roger!  I reviewed it with cdesai, and we thought
> those libraries were not used on the "host" version, only when built as
> part of Android OS.  I do think libfec would be useful if someone wants
> to package adbd for Debian.  The Google Android Tools builds do not
> include adbd for the host, only for the Android OS.

I uploaded my current work to branch rosh/fastboot
and build log can be checked by:
- http://debomatic-amd64.debian.net/distribution#unstable/android-platform-system-core/10.0.0+r36-1~stage2/buildlog

>From the build log, I think fastboot still depends on fs_mgr,
which depends on the new libs I mentioned previously (such as android-libfec).

Maybe you have workaround not building fs_mgr completely, but
currently I don't have no idea.

> Right now, the only blocker I know about is the assembler code in
> android-platform-art, which Michel and I are working on now.

Yes, I also noticed this part lately.
Hope you have good news on this.

Cheers
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Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo
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