[guardian-dev] GP libraries and apps that will be impacted by Android L changes?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I think it would be a matter of adding -fPIE to all of the native builds that
are in Makefiles.  My guess is that Android.mk build systems would do it
automatically.

.hc

Josh Steiner wrote:
> Could you give me some info on how to deal with it if we set minsdk to
> 4.1?  We are already in process of bumping up to 4.0+ and would
> consider moving to 4.1 if it solves major problems for us.
> 
> -j
> 
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
> <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>>
>> SQLCipher, IOCipher, android-ffmpeg, Orbot, GnuPrivacyGuard, and Lil Debi are
>> affected.  CacheWord, NetCipher, TrustedIntents, and F-Droid are not affected.
>>
>> If your minimum target SDK is android-16 (aka 4.1) then it will be easy to
>> deal with.  Otherwise, it'll be a chunk of work that is annoying to do.
>>
>> In the meantime, we should set maxSdkVersion="20" in our apps so that people
>> don't try to install it on Android L.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> David Oliver wrote:
>>> I understand from a prior post that Android L introduces new requirements
>>> for native executables (and/or native libraries).  Can someone advise here
>>> which of the GP libraries and apps are likely to be impacted in the near
>>> term?
>>>
>>> For my part, and to my limited understanding, the
>>> Courier/Paik/Idaho/YakReader suite will not be impacted by these new
>>> requirements directly (unless SQLCipher, IOCipher and/or CacheWord are
>>> impacted).
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dave O
>>>
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>>>
>>>
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