Prevent ndk-build from automatically cleaning module

Question

On my current setup (ndk r8c) ndk-build performs a clean step (V=1 shows rm in action) without issuing clean explicitly. I'd like to change this behavior - I'm currently having linking problems and (re-)compilation takes more than 5 minutes. How can I do this?

Answer 1

I suppose you are fasing a bug of NDK r8c. See this thread: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39810. You can downgrade to a previous NDK release or apply the suggested patch.

The patch is to change a single line 289 in build/core/definitions.mk from

$1: $$(__ndk_file_dir)

to

$1: | $$(__ndk_file_dir)