There are three main parts to a build system: figuring out what the possible commands are, figuring out which of those commands need to run and in which order, and actually running them.
While a shell script would conceivably be able to express the first one, it would struggle with some of the the second part (especially around incremental builds), and a readable implementation of the third part would likely be sequential, resulting in impractically long build times. JBQ -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Quéru Chief Mobile Architect, Verizon Media Co-chair, Senior Tech Council j...@oath.com "Users Come First" On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 5:40 PM Robert Durkacz <robert.durk...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is an outsider's question. I am trying to keep it short. > > I am used to building in the old way with 'make'. AOSP is using a very > strange new build system that it is evidently complex and hard to learn. It > is hard to help yourself when things go wrong. > > Should not any build system provide a common escape mechanism by providing > a shell script that builds all the main targets? In make you normally get > this by invoking 'make -n'. You can run the resulting script and > investigate problems where commands fail. You can modify the script as you > wish and you do not have to use make any more if you do not want to. > > Can I do the equivalent with AOSP? If not, why not and can we change that? > I have seen that is very difficult to do that with gradle, which is what > comes with the Android SDK. The situation seems even more difficult with > AOSP. > > As mentioned this is a short version of my question, hoping that people > will read it, so I have left out details of what versions of software I am > using and what I am trying to do. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Android > Building" mailing list. > To post to this group, send email to android-building@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-building+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-building?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Building" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to android-building+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Android Building" mailing list. To post to this group, send email to android-building@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-building+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-building?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Building" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-building+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
