Bug 103442

Summary:	Can't build android viewer with recent NDK
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	MTest31
Component:	Android Viewer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	aron.budea, cloph, MTest31
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.2.3.1 rc
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103443
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Description MTest31 2016-10-23 21:21:22 UTC

When I try to compile the android viewer with a recent android NDK, the build errors with the message:

configure: error: Unrecognized Android NDK. Missing RELEASE.TXT file in /home/vagrant/android-ndk/r12b.
Error running configure at ./autogen.sh line 281.

Only Android r10e works.

The version I tested was 5.2.3.1 or git commit 01ec8f357e651ca9656837b783cf7e6a32ee4d92, but it looks like current master still has this problem.

This is a problem I discovered when building libreoffice for f-droid (Bug 103067).

Comment 1 David Heidelberg 2016-11-02 21:39:53 UTC

Hello LibreOffice guys,

first I'd like to say I really appreciate effort on developing LibreOffice.

Second, I'd like to ask, as F-Droid user, if you could give a hand for people who building LibreOffice for F-Droid. It would make process much easier and faster :)

Also it would reduce number of bugreports about outdated LO in F-Droid.

Thank you

Comment 2 Aron Budea 2016-11-03 14:29:10 UTC

Christian, could Android-related fixes be backported to 5.2?
I saw a couple of changes to configure.ac by you that could help here, in particular:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=3b219e5487ae274722f0c4cef7f24f9246bf6abd
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=b91d9e2d9138b2eb09629d0a2d7e63869f5b9f1b
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=c58cd511ab6c280a72ed725dbca653d3b1274f2a

Comment 3 MTest31 2017-02-01 15:03:37 UTC

I confirm its fixed for 5.3.0.3.

Comment 4 Christian Lohmaier 2017-02-01 16:34:13 UTC

to answer backport: Android viewer isn't in a stage of maturity to warrant maintaining it in release branches. In other words: all releases thus far have been prepared from master branch.

Comment 5 MTest31 2017-02-01 21:25:44 UTC

About the recent 5.3 release. I've tried to package 5.3.0.3 for F-Droid, and got a build error which looks like another bug, without any idea how to work around it. Can I file an issue for it? Do you think I should avoid packaging it?

Also, could you make it more transparent which git commits you use for Android builds? Like giving them special git tags for example, or maintaining a public document with git commits.

Comment 6 David Heidelberg 2017-06-21 09:17:14 UTC

@MTest31 please open new issue, it's not likely that anyone notice comment in already closed issue :)