Re: [gentoo-soc] Weekly Report: Portage Powered Android

[EBo <ebo@sandien.com>]

I thought I would also mention that recently I learned about the Proxy 
Maintainers program[1].  It might be another venue to support the 
efforts.  As mentioned before, if this is of interest you should take it 
up with your mentor and others.

   EBo --

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers

On Aug 11 2020 7:41 PM, Gunwant Jain wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This and the previous week, I have been working on building AOSP's 
> LLVM
> toolchain for aarch64. tldr is that I have succeeded in doing so, but 
> I
> have yet to commit my progress at the (yet to be) SharkBait 
> manifest[1].
>
> Really there are just a couple of things to work on before we are 
> ready
> to build Android on arm64:
>
> 1. The build process is a bit immature. I will commit the polished
> changes in a day or two at the LLVM source[2].
>
> 2. While trying to minimize dependencies that AOSP bundles for 
> building
> LLVM, I noticed that building LLVM requires using libraries from a
> prebuilt gcc[3]. This is unwanted because we aim not to use any of 
> the
> prebuilt dependencies that AOSP ships.
> Therefore this week I am working upon building AOSP's gcc[4] for
> aarch64.
>
> Once the GCC dependency is sorted, I will start testing building 
> Lineage
> on aarch64. I have set a personal goal to atleast start these tests 
> by
> this week, since we do not have much time left.
>
> Finally, I would like to thank my mentor, Heroxbd for providing the
> arm64 server, due to which I could pick up the pace and build AOSP's
> LLVM on aarch64.
>
>
> Regards,
> Gunwant
>
> [1] https://github.com/WantGuns/manifest/tree/lineage-17.1
> [2] https://github.com/WantGuns/toolchain_llvm_android
> [3] 
> https://github.com/WantGuns/manifest/blob/llvm-r353983/default.xml#L39
> [4] https://android.googlesource.com/toolchain/gcc