I was wondering if it is possible to build/compile the Android OS against embedded glibc instead of bionic?
Has it been done?
What would some forseeable problems be, as in, would much Android code need to be modified to utilize glibc properly , and would existing proprietary firmware bug out if glibc was inplace instead of bionic?
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I've been doing Android application development for Android 1.5 on Debian etch (4.0), and things were going okay. I then tried upgrading the SDK to support more recent platforms. The problem is that the vast majority of the tools that are executables (I'm not counting shell scripts) seem to now depend on glibc >= 2.4. When trying to execute them, or passing them to ldd, I get an error like:
./aapt: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by ./aapt)
On Debian, the file /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 is provided by the libc6-i686 package, which on etch is version 2.3.6.ds1-13etch7, but on lenny I see that the version has increased to 2.7-18.
I can think of a few workarounds: - Copy the required libraries from a supported platform and point to them with LD_LIBRARY_PATH when using the affected executables. - Download the sources for the tools (e.g. http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=tree;...) and build my own local versions for Debian etch. - Give up using Debian etch and switch to another platform.
All of these are potentially viable alternatives for me, so this isn't a show stopper, and indeed http://developer.android.com/sdk/requirements.html says that it's only tested for GNU/Linux on Ubuntu Hardy Heron, which uses version 2.7-10ubuntu5. Nevertheless, it's somewhat annoying, and I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts, or if the Android team even knows of the issue. I'm guessing that sometime in the transition from 1.5 to 1.6, they switched from an earlier Ubuntu version (I have to go back to Dapper, which uses 2.3.6-0ubuntu20.5, to find a pre-2.4 version) to Hardy, and this was just a side effect. But I'd be surprised if there was anything specific in the source that really required libc 2.4, and it's possible that if they were just building with an appropriate compiler flag that backwards compatibility could be maintained.
This affects all platform-specific tools for platforms >= android-1.6 (so aapt, aidl, and dexdump), and it affects all platform-agnostic tools (except for hprof-conf and mksdcard; so adb, dmtracedump, emulator, sqlite3, and zipalign) installed with the new modular sdk download (android-sdk_r3-linux.tgz) available starting in the android 1.6 timeframe (the corresponding tools from the android 1.5 timeframe in the monolithic SDK download of android-sdk-linux_x86-1.5_r3.zip work fine).
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cp mediatek-configs .config
TARGET_PRODUCT=s9081 MTK_ROOT_CUSTOM=../mediatek/custom make
# sudo mtk-tools/repack-MT65xx.pl -boot zImage boot.img-ramdisk boot.img
MTK-Tools by Bruno MartinsMT65xx repack script (last update: 27-01-2013)
Repacking boot image...
Ramdisk size: 2046 blocs
Repacked boot image into 'boot.img'.
Here are the Warnings I got when compiling
mediatek/platform/mt6577/kernel/drivers/video/tvc_drv.c:61:5: warning: "FIXED_WVGA_PARAMS" is not defined
net/ipv4/tcp.c: In function 'tcp_nuke_addr':
include/net/ipv6.h:338: warning: 'in6' may be used uninitialized in this function
net/ipv4/tcp.c:3367: note: 'in6' was declared here
In file included from net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_LOG.c:27:
include/net/netfilter/xt_log.h: In function 'sb_close':
[code]....
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Device MaxPacketSize: 64
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