[guardian-dev] Building Android GPG on OS X

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at guardianproject.info
Thu Apr 3 14:55:46 EDT 2014



On 04/03/2014 02:50 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
> <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Building the native bits on OSX most likely will not work.  Its a patches
>> welcome situation, we all work on Debian/Ubuntu for the most part.  Its just a
>> lot easier to do Android native stuff on Debian/Ubuntu than anything else.  I
>> recommend using an Ubuntu VM for building the native builds.  That said, if
>> you are up for taking on fixing it for OSX, I'm happy to answer questions.
> 
> I think it should work.  Also, a *lot* of really good developers (not
> me) live on OS X, so it’s worth some investment of time.  Yeah, if
> need be I’ll make a VM but I’m not giving up just yet.   Most recent
> problem was inconsistency between gnu-sed & OS X sed.  I’ll keep the
> diary up to date as I go along and even if not all of these get fixed,
> I’ll post it somewhere so it’ll be on the record.

OK, and we can commit fixes as we go, so if someone wants to later pick up the
project.

.hc

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