[Android-tools-devel] Bug#738119: src:android-tools: attempt to update existing packaging

[Ray Kohler]

I forgot to say, that I put the full tree I worked on at
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~rjkohler/ for reference.

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Package: src:android-tools
> Followup-For: Bug #738119
>
> Although the android-tools packaging is indeed rather bad, I've made an
> attempt to update it for 5.0.1. (Integrating it with
> android-platform-system-core was beyond my skill.)
>
> I'm attaching updates of the three custom makefiles supplied under
> debian/makefiles. Some comments on the changes I made:
>
> - AndroidConfig.h is no more, so the build-dep on android-system-dev is
>   no longer needed.
>
> - adb doesn't appear to use libzipfile any longer.
>
> - adb is currently built with -DWORKAROUND_BUG6558362 by upstream, so I
>   did likewise.
>
> - fastboot now depends on f2fs_utils, i.e., extras/f2fs_utils and
>   externals/f2fs-tools. (Debian has an f2fs-tools package, but
>   apparently no dev package to go with it.) f2fs_utils in turn pulls in
>   core/include/log and core/include/android.
>
> - fastboot (or one of its deps, I forgot which) needs
>   core/include/utils.
>
> - ext4_utils now needs the selinux headers from external/libselinux, as
>   Debian's libselinux1-dev doesn't contain android.h.
>
> - ext4_utils needs -DANDROID and -DHOST to compile correctly.
>
> There were also some problems with the actual source files, which will
> need patches:
>
> - libzipfile/centraldir.c needs an explicit #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64
>   to compile.
>
> - extras/f2fs_utils/f2fs_sparseblock.c is missing includes for stdlib.h,
>   string.h, and errno.h.
>
> - extras/f2fs_utils/f2fs_utils.c is missing an include of string.h.
>
> As the internal deps continue to grow, it's even more true that the
> current build method of this package is a problem. However, since there
> are multiple deps on source files outside of the platform/core repo,
> integration with android-platform-system-core also feels wrong. Upstream
> doesn't make this easy.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.0
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
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