libncurses5 package missing from Ubuntu 23.10+

[Alexander Koskovich]

AOSP (main) won't compile starting from this version onward. Is there a plan to migrate renderscript to a newer Clang version or is that not likely?

[enh]

what's the renderscript connection here? what's the build error you're seeing?

On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 10:06 PM 'Alexander Koskovich' via Android
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[Alexander Koskovich]

prebuilts/clang/host/linux-x86/clang-3289846/bin/clang.real: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
15:24:30 ninja failed with: exit status 1

clang-3289846 is being used only for Renderscript currently it looks like. Super old version of Clang, 3.8. The package containing libncurses.so.5 is no longer found in Ubuntu 23.10+ or Debian testing.

[enh]

thanks! i talked to our llvm folks, and they've filed a bug to switch
to prebuilts for this. in the meantime, they also point out that
prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/host/x86_64-linux-glibc2.17-4.8/sysroot/usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.9
might be useful as a workaround :-)

actually removing renderscript is a longer-term project... it's been
deprecated for a couple of releases, and we're working on disabling it
for apps with target api level $next_year, but it'll be a year or two
after that until it can actually be removed fully.

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 1:34 PM 'Alexander Koskovich' via Android

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[Stephen Hines]

Feel free to cherry-pick https://android-review.git.corp.google.com/c/platform/prebuilts/clang/host/linux-x86/+/2760210 in the meantime, and let me know if you have trouble with it. I'll be following up with a more final solution, but this should also unblock you.

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[Alexander Koskovich]

Thanks! Is this something we might see in the Android 14 QPRs as well, or do you think it won't be in an official release until Android 15?

[xstefen]

Would love to but one does not simply walk into *.corp.google.com

[Dan Willemsen]

Try https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/prebuilts/clang/host/linux-x86/+/2760210 instead

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[enh]

yes, this should make it into the qprs.

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