In addition to the known problem reported against 'repo' not working with 
the new Python 2.6 (bug id# ),


I faced the following issues while building Android SDK on my Fedora 11a 
box:

(1) The script build/tools/findleaves.sh assumes that the argument #0 is 
the name of directory (.) where to start searching for makefiles from.
It works with bash 3.x while in bash 4.0 the argument #0 in construct 
${@:0:$nargs} returns the name of the script itself 
(build/tools/findleaves.sh), not the path (dot). So the index needs to be 
adjusted from ${@:0:$nargs} to ${@:1:$nargs} for this script to work 
properly with bash 4.0.


(2) GCC 4.4 appear to be more strict with respect to implicit includes. 
Some .cpp files in SDK are missing proper #include <cstdio>


(3) GCC 4.4 is more strict with respect to char * vs. const char *. Some 
type conversions cause the build to fail.


(4) The default OpenJDK coming with Fedora 11a does not compile the SDK, 
crashes on some files.
Had to install the latest Sun JDK 1.6.0 to compile the Android SDK.


Here is the patch diff that I applied to build it properly on my Fedora 
11a machine.

( Issue #1  is discussable, whether it's a bug with bash or with the 
script.. maybe it's possible to check for the bash version inside the 
script. Fixes #2-#3 should probably be commited to repository. Problem #4 
is a problem with OpenJDK, should probably open a bug against the OpenJDK 
1.6.0...)

Cheers,
Max

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