• Iliyan Malchev's avatar
    build: remove prelinker build build system · b375e71d
    Iliyan Malchev authored
    This patch removes support for prelinking from the build system.  By now, the
    prelinker has outlived its usefulness for several reasons.  Firstly, the
    speedup that it afforded in the early days of Android is now nullified by the
    speed of hardware, as well as by the presence of Zygote.  Secondly, the space
    savings that come with prelinking (measued at 17MB on a recent honeycomb
    stingray build) are no longer important either.  Thirdly, prelinking reduces
    the effectiveness of Address-Space-Layout Randomization.  Finally, since it is
    not part of the gcc suite, the prelinker needs to be maintained separately.
    
    The patch deletes apriori, soslim, lsd, isprelinked, and iself from the source
    tree.  It also removes the prelink map.
    
    LOCAL_PRELINK_MODULE becomes a no-op.  Individual Android.mk will get cleaned
    separately.  Support for prelinking will have to be removed from the recovery
    code and from the dynamic loader as well.
    
    Change-Id: I5839c9c25f7772d5183eedfe20ab924f2a7cd411
    b375e71d
dynamic_binary.mk 4.64 KB