The good news is that Chrome is also affected, so it looks like the Chromium/Chrome developers are working on a strategy to handle supporting ICS with PIE binaries:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=373219 .hc Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > Here's how to do this build for ffmpeg, this should be easy to incorporate > into android-ffmpeg: > http://vinsol.com/blog/2014/07/30/cross-compiling-ffmpeg-with-x264-for-android/ > > For storymaker, you might get away with raising your minimum target API to > android-16, then you can ship only PIE binaries. > > .hc > > Josh Steiner wrote: >> Ug, lots of rumors that L might be launching as early as this week. -j >> >> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Yeah, I saw that in the NDK. Its bad. We'll have to ship two versions of >>> all >>> native binaries, since PIE support is pretty new in Android. >>> >>> .hc >>> >>> Nathan of Guardian wrote: >>>> Seems like we need to review all our cross-compiling code... >>>> >>>> "While using native executables in our existing Android apps we observed >>>> that those executables were no more working with Android L. We came to >>>> know that Android has introduced one more security feature starting from >>>> Android L i.e >>>> Executable must be PIE (Position independent executable)." >>>> >>>> http://vinsol.com/blog/2014/08/19/compiling-native-libraries-for-android-l/ >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> PGP fingerprint: 5E61 C878 0F86 295C E17D 8677 9F0F E587 374B BE81 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Guardian-dev mailing list >>> >>> Post: [email protected] >>> List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev >>> >>> To Unsubscribe >>> Send email to: [email protected] >>> Or visit: >>> https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/guardian-dev/josh%40vitriolix.com >>> >>> You are subscribed as: [email protected] > -- PGP fingerprint: 5E61 C878 0F86 295C E17D 8677 9F0F E587 374B BE81 _______________________________________________ Guardian-dev mailing list Post: [email protected] List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To Unsubscribe Send email to: [email protected] Or visit: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/guardian-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com You are subscribed as: [email protected]
