Remove TARGET_ROOT_OUT_SBIN / TARGET_ROOT_OUT_SBIN_UNSTRIPPED
/sbin was traditionally used for static binaries on the ramdisk for
Android, but now everything is a shared binary, so this directory is
empty and we do not want to encourage creation of new libraries in
this directory.
Bug: 73660730
Test: build
Change-Id: Ia82d892adfffb6fa325d0c570ae7999e7bb28dc2
diff --git a/core/build-system.html b/core/build-system.html
index 3a11a47..cc242d9 100644
--- a/core/build-system.html
+++ b/core/build-system.html
@@ -516,8 +516,8 @@
example the root filesystem instead of in /system, add these lines to your
Android.mk:</p>
<pre>
-LOCAL_MODULE_PATH := $(TARGET_ROOT_OUT_SBIN)
-LOCAL_UNSTRIPPED_PATH := $(TARGET_ROOT_OUT_SBIN_UNSTRIPPED)
+LOCAL_MODULE_PATH := $(TARGET_ROOT_OUT)
+LOCAL_UNSTRIPPED_PATH := $(TARGET_ROOT_OUT_UNSTRIPPED)
</pre>
<p>For executables and libraries, you need to specify a
<code>LOCAL_UNSTRIPPED_PATH</code> location if you specified a
@@ -527,9 +527,6 @@
<code>LOCAL_MODULE_RELATIVE_PATH</code>.</p>
<p>Look in <code>core/envsetup.mk</code> for all of the variables defining
places to build things.</p>
-<p>FYI: If you're installing an executable to /sbin, you probably also want to
-set <code>LOCAL_FORCE_STATIC_EXCUTABLE := true</code> in your Android.mk, which
-will force the linker to only accept static libraries.</p>
<h3>Android.mk variables</h3>
@@ -685,8 +682,7 @@
<h4>LOCAL_FORCE_STATIC_EXECUTABLE</h4>
<p>If your executable should be linked statically, set
<code>LOCAL_FORCE_STATIC_EXECUTABLE:=true</code>. There is a very short
-list of libraries that we have in static form (currently only libc). This is
-really only used for executables in /sbin on the root filesystem.</p>
+list of libraries that we have in static form (currently only libc).</p>
<h4>LOCAL_GENERATED_SOURCES</h4>
<p>Files that you add to <code>LOCAL_GENERATED_SOURCES</code> will be
@@ -812,7 +808,7 @@
<h4>LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES</h4>
<p>These are the static libraries that you want to include in your module.
Mostly, we use shared libraries, but there are a couple of places, like
-executables in sbin and host executables where we use static libraries instead.
+host executables where we use static libraries instead.
<p><code>LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES := \<br/>
libutils \<br/>
libtinyxml