Re: Android port of Emacs

[Po Lu]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

> Building those binaries (and its dependencies) can be quite a chore. So
> let's reverse the relation: can your port be built (toggling some
> configure options, for instance) so it can be packaged as a regular
> Termux binary? Which means that when executed from Termux the user would
> have a "native" Android Emacs with access to all those external binaries
> distributed by Termux.

No, but it can (right now) be packaged with the "shared user ID" set to
that of Termux.  When installed along side a Termux build signed with
the same package signing key as Emacs, Emacs will be able to access
executable files installed by Termux.

BTW, it is quite simple to build Termux packages: changing some
environment variables and running `build-bootstrap.sh' is sufficient to
generate the bootstrap archive, and dpkg can then be used to install the
rest.

Hope that helped.