[LTP] 回复：[PATCH v1] include/mk/env_post.mk: enable __ANDROID__ definition for Android build

[Petr Vorel]

Hi Zhengwang,

> > > According to [1] android toolchain (I guess both AOSP and NDK toolchain) define
> > > __ANDROID__. Which is what I'd expect.
> > > Grepping aosp only dnsmasq and swiftshader use -D__ANDROID__ (these are from
> > > externals). -DANDROID is use more times (e.g. some drivers in hardware - ril,
> > > qcom, libsensors and wpa_supplicant).
> > >  From my point of view, instead of -D__ANDROID__ or -DANDROID I'd prefer to to have
> > > proper #ifdef HAVE_FOO guarders made by autotools checks. As android is not the
> > > only minor libc. But I understand it's not always possible and we already use
> > > some #ifdef __ANDROID__ in library sources and headers, so ack from myself to
> > > help compilation outside AOSP and without NDK.
> > Actually I was wrong. 1) I was using NDK toolchain. I'd expect it'd generate
> > __ANDROID__, but I don't see it in the output. 2) Building for android with
> > distro toolchain doesn't make sense as it wouldn't have Bionic.

> 1) Did you build outside AOSP? If so,  I think it is reasonable since
Yes, with android NDK (for Bionic and special toolchain tweeks).
Then I use ANDROID=1

> whatever __ANDROID__ or ANDROID are defined by Android build system instead
> of toolchain. I also tried to build the external/* thing and found ANDROID
> was actually generated. In my test, ANDROID seems to be the more suitable
> one, but in fact we can not build ltp inside AOSP because there is no
> Android.mk in ltp (please correct me if I am wrong...),  so ANDROID is
Yes, inside AOSP you need to use Android fork [1] which uses usual Android.bp.
Therefore AOSP does not use our build system.

> meaningless to us here. Actually, this is why I think this patch is still
> useful, since __ANDROID__ is enough to distinguish what to compile if
> ANDROID=1 is set with make.

> 2) In the case of cross-compilation, I think it still makes sense, since we
> can use the same toolchain, such as clang,  and build parameters (the
> specify the include headers and libs, etc) as AOSP. This is what I am doing
> now, you can see my steps I posted in my previous reply. But in this case,
> we need to obviously set -D__ANDROID__ in CFLAGS. After that , the process
> should be similar as we launch a build inside AOSP.
I don't know much about android toolchain, but IMHO there are some other tweaks
in their build system (to comply changes in Bionic), so not sure if it's even
possible to avoid using NDK for out-of-aosp tree. See also [2]. But that's a
question for for Android devs.

> Regards,

> Zhengwang

Kind regards,
Petr

[1] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/ltp/
[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-ndk/cf9_f1SLXls