Broken for Android >5.0

[protist]

Looks like this project is dead, but for others, this is currently broken for Android >5.0

# /data/local/ntpclient -c 1 -d -h pool.ntp.org -s                                                                                                                                                       
"/data/local/ntpclient": error: Android 5.0 and later only support position-independent executables (-fPIE).

I tried naively messing around with the flags in Makefile, changing the two instances of -fPIC to -fPIE, but the same error persisted.

[benv2k6]

If you want to run ntpclient from adb, you can build it with musl (https://musl.cc/). Creating statically compiled binary to run on aarch64 (without using the ndk)

export MUSL=$path to aarch64-linux-musl-cross
LDFLAGS="-static -static-pie -static-libgcc -Wl,-static" CFLAGS="-static" CC=$MUSL/bin/aarch64-linux-musl-gcc make -j

And by that I mean using the original package (no need for special android fork) http://doolittle.icarus.com/ntpclient/

[wlach]

Thanks @benv2k6. I'm going to mark this project as archived to hopefully make it more clear this is no longer a needed thing