I believe that the android.com page is a little out of date. There are a lot of different workarounds that are floating around the net. I'll try to summarize what worked for me.
Two helpful, if imperfect, pages are located here:
crashcourse.ca
wildartist
First, it looks like you'll probably want to use java6
and not java5
, judging by some of the group threads . So if you see java5 in instructions, know that you'll need to substitute in either the sun java6 or open java 6.
Here are the packages I needed for my 32-bit system:
sudo apt-get install git-core gnupg flex bison gperf libsdl-dev libesd0-dev libwxgtk2.6-dev build-essential zip curl libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev openjdk-6-jdk ant gcc-multilib g++-multilib
After those are in place, build repo
:
sudo curl http://android.git.kernel.org/repo -o /usr/local/bin/repo
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/repo
Then in your build directory:
repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git
repo sync
The wildartist site continues:
If you encounter the message “command not found” then you can do it with the following commands:
$ sudo sh /usr/local/bin/repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git
$ sudo sh /usr/local/bin/repo sync
It will take much time to get the code
even though the line is fast as the
project itself is really huge. After
the long waiting, you will find that
the checkout process has been ended.
The next thing to do is MAKE to build
the project. But you will meet a
message that the Java version is not
correct and the build process fails.
Then you can modify the
build/core/main.mk file to change the
text ”1.5″ to “1.6″.
At this point you should have the dependencies and the code take care of. You will still need to make
.
Because the code base and supporting libraries and components are changing, it's hard to keep the instructions perfectly up-to-date, which is why there are so many conflicting how-to's for this process.