On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 11:49:32AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi, > > Here's a patch to recognize Android environments. > > Such environments are "apps" with POSIX-like tools. Today, the most frequently > used one is Termux [1][2][3]; on devices with Android versions before 5.0 > one can use Terminal-IDE [4][5]. > > config.sub already supports this environment: > > $ sh config.sub armv7l-linux-androideabi > armv7l-unknown-linux-androideabi > > I've built many GNU packages in this environment, with the following recipe: > CONFIG_SHELL=$PREFIX/bin/sh; export CONFIG_SHELL > CC="clang -ferror-limit=0" CXX="clang++ -ferror-limit=0"; export CC CXX > ./configure --host=armv7l-linux-androideabi --prefix=$HOME/local > > The Termux people have compiled or ported more than 1000 packages as well [6]. > > But the requirement to pass the --host parameter each time is an annoyance. > Without it, based only on the results of uname, config.guess guesses > > $ sh config.guess > armv7l-unknown-linux-gnueabi > > and many configuration results are wrong (because Android has many functions > in libc without declaring them in the .h files, depending on the so-called > "Android API level"), leading to many compilation errors. > > With the attached patch, it produces > > $ sh config.guess > armv7l-unknown-linux-androideabi > > The patch does not include an addition to the config.guess test suite, since > the uname values are: > $ uname -m > armv7l > $ uname -r > 4.19.127 > $ uname -s > Linux > $ uname -v > #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 4 16:54:58 IST 2023 > $ uname -p > unknown > which maps to armv7l-unknown-linux-gnueabi.
Applied, thanks. -- ldv
