On Jan 1, 2012 8:56 PM, "Jesse Juhani Jaara" <jesse.jaara@gmail.com> wrote:
You should never do anything like that in Arch. ALWAYS use the PKGBUILD,
it might save you a a hell of lot time, wich might othervice go into all sorts of tinkering, expecially when installing binary only stuff. You are going to run into all sorts of problems with that thing in future and people are sure gonna get angry cuz you complain about stuff not working but they cannot understand why, just becouse you used unoffical method.
Read the Arch Linux Wiki, it is a ral tresure cave. Expecially read the
when page
about AUR.
1: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR 2: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Android
PS: Top posting is not really liked here in Arch forums, so remeber to write your replys under the old message.
Are you speaking about developing Android applications or more of compiling AOSP? If its the latter it might not be so easy. Primarily because Android requires older versions of GCC, Python, and Java 6 Sun. Arch is rolling release so that will definitely be a stopper.