[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 0/8] Fixes for building AOSP master

Chih-Wei Huang cwhuang at android-x86.org
Thu Feb 25 17:22:24 UTC 2016


2016-02-25 9:47 GMT+08:00 Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>:
> On 24 February 2016 at 18:56, Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> wrote:
>> AOSP master branch has switched to clang from gcc and has major build
>> system changes moving away from GNU make.
>
> Out of curiosity: what are they moving to ? I can see "blueprint"
> (ninja?), kati (gnu make clone) and soong(?). Is there a
> comparison/documentation about them ?

Google has announced the change to all partners.
The reasons include it’s time to have just one compiler
for Android, and the positive impact on security
of sanitizers like AddressSanitizer, etc.

The full post and faq can be found in the
android-gms-announcements list.


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Chih-Wei
Android-x86 project
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