From 49d3fdaa25fe01da09ab5e0612a24fa87ff994ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Micay Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 18:58:11 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] explain the purpose of prebuilts --- static/build.html | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/static/build.html b/static/build.html index a398b17f..40b4433d 100644 --- a/static/build.html +++ b/static/build.html @@ -221,6 +221,17 @@ self-updating variant avoids dealing with out-of-date distribution packages and depends on GPG to verify updates.

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The Android Open Source Project build system is designed to provide reliable and + reproducible builds. To accomplish this, it provides a prebuilt toolchain and other + utilities fulfilling most of the build dependency requirements itself. These prebuilt + tools have reproducible builds themselves. It runs the build process within a loose + sandbox to avoid accidental dependencies on the host system. The process of moving to + a fully self-contained build process with minimal external dependencies is gradual and + there are still dependencies that need to be installed on the host system.

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The Linux kernel build process is not integrated into the rest of the AOSP build + process, but does reuse the same prebuilts to make the build reproducible.

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Additional Linux kernel build dependencies not provided by the source tree: