[mythtv] Android build

[David Engel]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 05:47:35PM +1000, Mark Spieth wrote:
> On 29/04/2021 12:11 pm, David Engel wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 08:47:42PM +0100, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> > > 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.

I had quite a bit of trepidation when adding that comment above.  For
the record, I greatly admire all the work you did making the Android
port work.  It's been my family's, main frontend for 2.5 (I think)
years now.

David
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David Engel
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