Meta-issue: support of the android platform

[xdegaye]

BPO	26865
Nosy	@ethanfurman, @xdegaye, @ericsnowcurrently, @Fak3, @zware, @moreati, @yan12125, @ethanhs
Dependencies	bpo-16255: subrocess.Popen needs /bin/sh but Android only has /system/bin/sh bpo-23968: rename the platform directory from plat-$(MACHDEP) to plat-$(PLATFORM_TRIPLET) bpo-26849: android does not support versioning in SONAME bpo-26851: android compilation and link flags bpo-26853: missing symbols in curses and readline modules on android bpo-26854: missing header on android for the ossaudiodev module bpo-26855: android: add platform.android_ver() bpo-26856: android does not have pwd.getpwall() bpo-26857: gethostbyname_r() is broken on android bpo-26858: setting SO_REUSEPORT fails at API 21 bpo-26862: android: SYS_getdents64 does not need to be defined on android API 21 bpo-26863: android lacks some declarations for the posix module bpo-26884: android: cross-compilation of extension module links to the wrong python library bpo-26918: android: test_pipes fails bpo-26919: on Android python fails to decode/encode command line arguments bpo-26920: android: test_sys fails bpo-26924: android: test_concurrent_futures fails bpo-26925: android: test_multiprocessing_main_handling fails bpo-26926: test_io large file test failure on 32 bits Android platforms bpo-26927: test_mmap does not handle ValueError when no large file support bpo-26928: bootlocale imports locale at startup on Android, causing test_site to fail bpo-26929: android: test_strptime fails bpo-26931: android: test_distutils fails bpo-26932: RTLD* macros are not defined on Android bpo-26933: android: test_posixpath fails bpo-26934: android: test_faulthandler fails bpo-26935: android: test_os fails bpo-26936: android: test_socket fails bpo-26937: the chown() method of the tarfile.TarFile class fails on Android bpo-26938: android: test_concurrent_futures hangs on armv7 bpo-26939: android: test_functools hangs on armv7 bpo-26940: android: test_importlib hangs on armv7 bpo-26941: android: test_threading hangs on armv7 bpo-26942: android: test_ctypes crashes on armv7 and aarch64 bpo-26944: test_posix: Android 'id -G' is entirely wrong or missing the effective gid bpo-27027: add the 'is_android' attribute to test.support bpo-27442: expose the Android API level in sysconfig.get_config_vars() bpo-27472: add the 'unix_shell' attribute to test.support bpo-27606: Android cross-built for armv5te with clang and '-mthumb' crashes with SIGSEGV or SIGILL bpo-27627: clang fails to build ctypes on Android armv7 bpo-27659: Prohibit implicit C function declarations bpo-28180: Implementation of the PEP 538: coerce C locale to C.utf-8 bpo-28538: _socket module cross-compilation error on android-24 bpo-28562: test_asyncio fails on Android upon calling getaddrinfo() bpo-28596: on Android _bootlocale on startup relies on too many library modules bpo-28662: catch also PermissionError in tests when spawning a non existent program bpo-28664: test_bz2 fails with BrokenPipeError when bunzip2 is missing bpo-28668: instanciation of multiprocessing.Queue raises ImportError in test_logging bpo-28683: bind() on a unix socket raises PermissionError on Android for a non-root user bpo-28684: [asyncio] bind() on a unix socket raises PermissionError on Android for a non-root user bpo-28740: Add sys.getandroidapilevel() bpo-28746: cannot set_inheritable() for a file descriptor on Android bpo-28759: access to mkfifo, mknod and hard links is controled by SELinux MAC on Android bpo-28762: lockf() is available now on Android API level 24, but the F_LOCK macro is not defined bpo-28764: test_mailbox fails when run as a non-root user on Android API 24 bpo-28996: wcscoll is broken on Android and test_locale fails bpo-28997: test_readline.test_nonascii fails on Android bpo-29040: building Android with android-ndk-r14 bpo-29176: /tmp does not exist on Android and is used by curses.window.putwin() bpo-29177: skip tests of test_logging when bind() raises PermissionError (non-root user on Android) bpo-29180: skip tests that raise PermissionError in test_os (non-root user on Android) bpo-29181: skip tests that raise PermissionError in test_tarfile (non-root user on Android) bpo-29184: skip tests of test_socketserver when bind() raises PermissionError (non-root user on Android) bpo-29185: test_distutils fails on Android API level 24 bpo-32031: Do not use the canonical path in pydoc test_mixed_case_module_names_are_lower_cased bpo-32059: detect_modules() in setup.py must also search the sysroot paths bpo-32126: [asyncio] test failure when the platform lacks a functional sem_open() bpo-32138: android: test_faulthandler fails also on API 24 bpo-32139: android: locale is modified by test_strftime bpo-32199: uuid.getnode() should return the MAC address on Android bpo-32202: [ctypes] all long double tests fail on android-24-x86_64 bpo-32203: [ctypes] test_struct_by_value fails on android-24-arm64 bpo-32205: test.pythoninfo does not print the cross-built sysconfig data bpo-32210: Add platform.android_ver() to test.pythoninfo for Android platforms bpo-32246: test_regrtest alters the execution environment on Android

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created_at = <Date 2016-04-26.15:36:51.967>
labels = ['type-feature', '3.7', 'build']
title = 'Meta-issue: support of the android platform'
updated_at = <Date 2017-12-10.09:31:57.501>
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Linked PRs

• gh-71052: Add Android build script #115576
• gh-71052: Enable test_concurrent_futures on platforms that support threading but not multiprocessing #115917
• gh-71052: Add test exclusions to support running the test suite on Android #115918
• gh-71052: fix test_concurrent_futures wasi regression. #115923
• gh-71052: Fix several Android build issues #115955
• gh-71052: Change Android's sys.platform from "linux" to "android" #116215
• gh-71052: Implement ctypes.util.find_library on Android #116379
• gh-71052: Use raise_signal rather than kill in ThreadSignals.test_signals #116423
• gh-71052: Add Android build script and instructions #116426
• [3.11] gh-71052: Use raise_signal in ThreadSignals.test_signals (GH-116423) #116617
• [3.12] gh-71052: Use raise_signal in ThreadSignals.test_signals (GH-116423) #116618

[xdegaye]

This issue lists issues that may have to be fixed in the perspective of a future support of the android platform.

build
issue bpo-26849: android does not support versioning in SONAME
issue bpo-26851: android compilation and link flags
issue bpo-26852: add a COMPILEALL_FLAGS Makefile variable

curses, readline
issue bpo-26853: missing symbols in curses and readline modules on android

ossaudiodev
issue bpo-26854: missing header on android for the ossaudiodev module

platform
issue bpo-16353: add function to os module for getting path to default shell
issue bpo-26855: add platform.android_ver() for android

pwd
issue bpo-26856: android does not have pwd.getpwall()

socketmodule
issue bpo-26857: gethostbyname_r() is broken on android

asyncio tests
issue bpo-26858: setting SO_REUSEPORT fails on android

unittest
issue bpo-26859: unittest fails with "Start directory is not importable"

posixmodule
issue bpo-26862: SYS_getdents64 does not need to be defined on android API 21
issue bpo-26863: android lacks some declaration for the posix module

[xdegaye]

build
issue bpo-26884: cross-compilation of extension module links to the wrong python library

This should be added to the meta-issue dependencies, I guess.

[xdegaye]

All the dependencies of this issue are tagged with Components:Cross-Build and a title starting with 'android'.

Tests that fail on an android emulator running an x86 system image at API level 21:

issue bpo-26918: android: test_pipes fails
issue bpo-26919: android: test_cmd_line fails
issue bpo-26920: android: test_sys fails
issue bpo-26924: android: test_concurrent_futures fails
issue bpo-26925: android: test_multiprocessing_main_handling fails
issue bpo-26926: android: test_io fails
issue bpo-26927: android: test_mmap fails
issue bpo-26928: android: test_site fails
issue bpo-26929: android: test_strptime fails
issue bpo-26931: android: test_distutils fails
issue bpo-26932: android: test_posix fails
issue bpo-26933: android: test_posixpath fails
issue bpo-26934: android: test_faulthandler fails
issue bpo-26935: android: test_os fails
issue bpo-26936: android: test_socket fails
issue bpo-26937: android: test_tarfile fails

Tests that fail on an android emulator running an armv7 system image (but not fail on x86) at API level 21:

issue bpo-26938: android: test_concurrent_futures hangs on armv7
issue bpo-26939: android: test_functools hangs on armv7
issue bpo-26940: android: test_importlib hangs on armv7
issue bpo-26941: android: test_threading hangs on armv7
issue bpo-26942: android: test_ctypes crashes on armv7

[xdegaye]

Tests that fail on an android emulator running an x86 system image at API level 21:

issue bpo-26944: android: test_posix fails

[xdegaye]

issue bpo-27027: add is_android in test.support to detect Android platform

[zware]

Xavier: It's been long enough that I don't remember whether regular Users can adjust Dependencies, but since you didn't do it yourself I assume they can't. I've just given you the Developer role, so you can now :)

[xdegaye]

No, regular users can't adjust dependencies, but I can now. Thanks Zachary.

[xdegaye]

issue bpo-22747: Interpreter fails in initialize on systems where HAVE_LANGINFO_H is undefined

[xdegaye]

issue bpo-16255: subrocess.Popen needs /bin/sh but Android only has /system/bin/sh
issue bpo-16353: add function to os module for getting path to default shell

[xdegaye]

issue bpo-23968: rename the platform directory from plat-$(MACHDEP) to plat-$(PLATFORM_TRIPLET)

[xdegaye]

issue bpo-22724: byte-compile fails for cross-builds

[xdegaye]

issue bpo-27442: expose Android API level in sys.implementation