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-rw-r--r--configure.in6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 6782015b9168..6d9699d905a9 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -134,6 +134,12 @@ if test -n "$with_android_ndk"; then
# What if the NDK at some point starts including several toolchains for different
# gcc versions (like some 3rd-party improved NDK builds already do)?
# Then the use of a wildcard below will break.
+
+ # That indeed happened with NDK r8b, which has both gcc 4.4.3 and 4.6
+ # -based toolchains. The latter has interesting new features, like the
+ # possiblity to use the gold linker, which should bring a nice speedup to
+ # linking especially our libmerged. Work to support that in progress. Until
+ # that is done, please use no newer NDK than r8.
if test "$with_android_arch" = "arm"; then
ANDROID_ABI_PREBUILT_BIN=`echo $ANDROID_NDK_HOME/toolchains/$with_android_arch-linux*/prebuilt/*/bin`
android_gcc_prefix=arm-linux-androideabi