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).
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 It would make process much easier and faster :) Also it would reduce number of bugreports about outdated LO in F-Droid.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
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
I confirm its fixed for 5.3.0.3.
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.
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.
@MTest31 please open new issue, it's not likely that anyone notice comment in already closed issue :)