Problems building Subsurface for Android

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 09:10:36PM +0100, Anton Lundin wrote:
> > 
> > > Goes to show you that whatever we do, we always make assumptions.
> 
> Yea, everything is based on lots of assumptions. I wrote that script to
> make it possible for others than me to build the apk's , and at least 
> both Dirk and Jocke have managed to build apk's so it can't be that
> broken.

It isn't. It just doesn't document all of its assumptions

> All of our build scripts makes lots of assumptions, and some of them are
> silly, and others just plain broken. Is the right solution to glue even
> more shell around everything?

That's a trick question, right? So I guess I'll go with 'no'?

> And for everyone who tries to write a shellscript, you might think you
> know what you're doing, and you most probably don't. Please use
> https://www.shellcheck.net/ before you end up doing rm -rf / directory.

I suck at writing shell scripts. More than I suck at writing QML. That
said, what else should I be doing in order to make things easier for more
people to contribute?

/D