gingerbread

Ok so the cause could be that in gingerbread is not necessary to modify those files, i've updated the guide with the changes that I've encountered through ics building so skip them..I'll modify the guide in different sections about what changes are needed for gingerbread and what for ics

Thanks again.

Minor problem, but I'm not sure what's the right way to fix this:

Here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/android-.../msg04665.html
a dev says that "The cause for the problem was having alsa-lib in two places.

1) mydroid/alsa-lib
2) mydroid/external/alsa-lib.

I removed the first one."

I had a fix for this in my guide but I removed that when I went to ICS branch instructions..I'm becoming crazy in finding again the fix on the web, apparently google has forgotten where the h**l is it >-( if someone remember the solution please post it here. Damn, I don't know why I've decided to remove it.

Thanks blackjack4it for all your help so far.
My build was completed without any errors.

No problem I'm happy that you succeded in resolving the problem ! Just tell me which steps did you do to solve the problem and I'll add them to the guide giving credit to you !

Sorry one more question.
I just notice this doesn't include any of the kernel/modules stuff.
How do I go about building them?
Thanks again!

My next guide will be about drivers compilation from sources but I can't write it yet because I'm going to finish my studies in the end of April and I don't have much spare time to do that sadly
As I told in a previous post:
So if you compile a driver as a module you can:
1) push it to the device using adb utility
2) load it with the command "insmod <completepathof .ko driver>"
3) debug it by looking at his kernel messages with the command "dmesg"

Note that in most cases loading the driver and dmesg is not enough, you will have to adapt some pieces of Android code to let it use it correctly

This is what I've understood for now, but I need to go deeper to write a guide

Hmm, but the thing is, it seems that the kernel source isn't actually checked out in the android tree for some reasons (at least with this nitdroid gingerbread tree)

Or I'll need to check that out separately?

Thanks again, good luck with your study.

Because of confusion between ics and gingerbread branch, I splitted the guide in ics steps, gingerbread steps and common steps for both branches.

Gingerbread steps are a WIP so stay tuned, I plan to finish gingerbread steps in a couple of hours

EDIT: Gingerbread steps completed, now anyone can work on 2.3.7 using Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit. About ics branch, stay tuned. As soon as I have updates I'll update the guide