From: Rafael Gieschke Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 17:30:49 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] add Android support Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20110519122026.GA30240@sigill.intra.peff.net> Am 19.05.2011 um 14:20 schrieb Jeff King: > The point of uname_S is that it would be found automatically. Sadly, > There is nothing helpful in uname to tell us that we are on android: > Actually, you can't even call uname as I suspect that you would normally not compile on Android (I don't think that gcc runs on Android) but always cross-compile. > So I think we are probably stuck either with the user setting an ANDROID > meta-flag that sets the other flags appropriately, or leaving it up to > the user to provide a sane config.mak. Yes, I agree that leaving it up completely to the user to provide a config.mak is a very good option too, especially as build environments might be different and some might want to try building with Perl and libcurl, which would require a config.mak anyhow.