WebView for Android Nougat relies on code that is not yet part of upstream Chromium releases

[thestinger]

CopperheadOS will need to reuse Google WebView builds rather than our own builds for the time being. This is quite annoying since it means we're stuck with their baseline compiler hardening rather than being able to enable some trapping UBSan sanitizers and using our -fsanitize=local-init sanitizer to zero all uninitialized local variables. Among other things that were previously possible thanks to building from source...

Can keep checking each stable release to figure out when the new code becomes public. Hopefully, they've already upstreamed enough for us to switch with the next stable release...

[thestinger]

Note: standalone Chromium still works fine.

[thestinger]

Note: standalone Chromium still works fine.

[thestinger]

Related: #415.

[thestinger]

Related: #415.

[rsesek]

Chromium's issue for upstreaming this code is here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=643660

[rsesek]

Chromium's issue for upstreaming this code is here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=643660

[thestinger]

@rsesek Any idea about #415? That seems like it might just be a bit of build integration that's missing now. Most of it seems to be there.

[thestinger]

@rsesek Any idea about #415? That seems like it might just be a bit of build integration that's missing now. Most of it seems to be there.

[thestinger]

(I'd be really happy if I had to do 2 builds instead of 4 :P)

[thestinger]

(I'd be really happy if I had to do 2 builds instead of 4 :P)

[thestinger]

Have now switched to the Beta channel to build this from source again. The new issue is #489.

[thestinger]

Have now switched to the Beta channel to build this from source again. The new issue is #489.