None of the tagged releases can be built on MacOS 10.8. They're too old.
Only the master branch is buildable on 10.8 IIRC. repo init -b master.
JBQ
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:41 AM, RW <
wil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I am new to Android and am a little confused by reading the past
> threads. I need to build Android on a mac - OSX 10.8.
> I don't need to build the emulator, which I understand doesn't work today. I
> just need the arm images and will be using the emulator provided with the
> android SDK
>
> I am confused on which release to check out.
>
> a) According to posts I read by Al Sutton, only the 'master' branch will be
> closest to a successful lion compilation. However, if I check out just the
> master, with repo init without a -b, it checks out ICS and that does not
> compile - in previous posts, Al has confirmed that ICS won't compile on 10.8
> (yes, I've diligently followed the 10.5 SDK download, strnlen fixes,
> changing CC to gcc-4.2 etc. it always fails with (Assertion failed:
> (LastChar > FirstChar && "Invalid start/end range" around the GL test
> files). So the question is , am I checking out the right "master" ?
>
> b) It seems to check out JB, I need to use -b android_4.1.1 but its upto r6
> now. Should I be checking out JB instead of the master branch with git for
> an easier OSX 10.8 compilation possibility?
>
> thank you
>
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