[mythtv] Android build

[Mark Spieth]

On 29/04/2021 12:11 pm, David Engel wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 08:47:42PM +0100, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
>> On 28/04/2021 17:52, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>> At one point my link android-sdk-linux -> Sdk disappeared (a gremlin
>>> deleted it or I forgot to create it?) and strange error messages
>>> resulted.
>>>
>> Out of interest, why do we require random symlinks like this???
>>
>> It is one of my pet hates, perhaps irrationally, to have a requirement
>> for such a link.
> Good question.  I'm not sure if (old?) Android was setup that way at
> one time and old habits die hard or that's simply how Mark Spieth was
> used to doing things.  At one time, I had a pet, side project to
> create an overall Makefile that would bypass all that and use make
> variables read read from config.mak files.  The goal was to more
> easily support multiple builds with different library versions, NDKs,
> SDKs, etc.  I didn't get very far and quickly lost interest.
> Everything seemed so fragile and once a working configuration was
> found, it was best to leave it as is.
>
Face it, I just don't know what I'm doing :-) so its all a hack job, 
staring off with lawrence's windows builder.

And cleanup was never high on the priority list.

IIRC I started off with separate sdk and ndk and then they created studio
which made life easier but the rest stayed in case I had to go back.

I commend anyone that wants to clean it up. Peter has already had a go 
and its better than it was.

At least there is a Makefile now.

Mark



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