[issue20305] Android's incomplete locale.h implementation prevents cross-compilation

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> "I've been looking into this, and the only option provided by the
> Android NDK involves cross-compiling Python on a regular machine. This
> would require some custom commands before and in between the builds,
> to build a host Python first, then cross-compile the Android Python,
> and then start the emulator, transfer the binaries there and run the
> tests over adb. Can buildbot provide functionality so this can be
> configured on-slave, or would it require setting up a seperate
> master?"

The master can ask the slave to execute arbitrary commands. So, as long
as you implement the necessary steps as well-known commands executable
by the slave, you can then tell me how to insert them inside the build
process.

However, the only point of setting up an Android buildbot would be if:
1) Python actually builds correctly on Android
2) someone monitors the buildbot for failures and tries to act on them

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