Disabling JACK in android compilation

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Carlyle Felix picture Carlyle Felix · Apr 17, 2016 · Viewed 11.5k times · Source

Does anybody know how to completely disable jack while compiling AOSP (Master)?

I've always had problems with jack, so I've just always turned it off by adding ANDROID_COMPILE_WITH_JACK := false in BoardConfig.mk (when compiling CyanogenMod). I'm now compiling aosp and it just seems to ignore this command.

Note: I'm not really trying to solve any jack related issues I have, I'm trying to turn it off.

Answer

Yan QiDong picture Yan QiDong · Jul 6, 2017

You can disable the JACK without to change any code.

make ANDROID_COMPILE_WITH_JACK:=false

Just do it when making the entire Android Project.

The magic is in build/make/combo/javac.mk:

ifndef ANDROID_COMPILE_WITH_JACK
# Defines if compilation with jack is enabled by default.
ANDROID_COMPILE_WITH_JACK := true
endif

And build/make/core/config.mk:

ifeq ($(ANDROID_COMPILE_WITH_JACK),true)
DEFAULT_JACK_ENABLED:=full
else
DEFAULT_JACK_ENABLED:=
endif

And build/make/core/clear_vars.mk:

LOCAL_JACK_ENABLED:=DEFAULT_JACK_ENABLED

It also indicates why your modification in a local module is in vain.

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