We currently do this sporadically. Not only amongst packages, but across
OS's, i.e sometimes it's done for BSDs/Android, and sometimes not.
Configure with `--with-pic` globally instead. I think this generally
makes more sense, and should not have any downsides.
See related discussion in
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28846#discussion_r1399123100.
f9af3ced1c Android: add all arch support (Block Mechanic)
d419ca7e32 depends: export dynamic JNI symbols from static qtforandroid.a (Igor Cota)
ed30684d03 Qt: patch androidjnimain.cpp to make sure JNI is initialised when statically compiled (Igor Cota)
e4c319e8a1 builds: remove superfluous config_opts_aarch64_android (Igor Cota)
24ffef0c27 Patch libevent when building for Android (fix arc4random_addrandom) (Igor Cota)
f1e40b3e71 Update bitcoin_qt.m4 (BlockMechanic)
b4057d8261 Define TARGET_OS when host is android (Igor Cota)
80b475f159 Fix Android zlib cross compilation issue (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21396988/zlib-build-not-configuring-properly-with-cross-compiler-ignores-ar) (Igor Cota)
45f8219015 Add full Android build example command and instructions on getting SDK/NDK (Igor Cota)
b68f2a68c2 Add config opts and patch for aarch64_android build of Qt (Igor Cota)
9c4cb0166e Add ranlib to android.mk hosts file (fix OSX Android NDK build) (Igor Cota)
c2a749c9c1 Add example Android host-platform-triplet and options (Igor Cota)
0b0cff3c61 Add support for building Android dependencies (Igor Cota)
Pull request description:
This allows one to build the dependencies with the Android SDK and goes towards fixing #11844. It has been tested to work with:
`make HOST=aarch64-linux-android ANDROID_API_LEVEL=28 ANDROID_TOOLCHAIN_BIN=/home/user/Android/Sdk/ndk-bundle/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin NO_QT=1 NO_WALLET=1`
ACKs for top commit:
Sjors:
ACK f9af3ce. I'm OK with merging and then improving later.
Tree-SHA512: cb805115ebe5c9e33db2bf3eab8628808fe3f50052053d8877d8b8e4406d6fea1ed9e5c4dff85d777fb99c81be6ffb9d95a0e6d32344e728e5e0da6c653e2ce7
By blanket passing --disable-dependency-tracking to all depends packages
we end up with some warnings like:
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-dependency-tracking
So instead, only pass it to packages that understand it.
Related to https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/16354.
We use pkg-config where we can, which generally replaces libtool at a
higher level and does not have the same downsides as libtool. These
archives sit in our depends tree with no purpose and pollute the final
bitcoin build with massive overlinking.
fanquake