[Development] Problem loading plugins with gcc 4.9.2

[Sérgio Martins]

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Alex Blasche <alexander.blasche at qt.io> wrote:
> This is an ancient thread but just to keep this in mind (it certainly cost me a day re-figuring this out).
>
> If you do Qt development for Android you are going to be hit by this. The four most recent Android NDKs (11c, 12b, 13b & 14) are affected by this bug when using Linux (not all Linux distros though but certainly Ubuntu 16.04) as host platform. The only decent choice is 10e at this point in time.
>
> I am tempted to just submit a patch that renames the damn loader variables. Any opinions?

Hi,

Options:

- Use the latest NDKs, but with clang instead of gcc
- Use the latest NDKs with gcc but don't compile in debug mode
(release doesn't crash)
- Use 10e

I prefer option 1, sooner or later that gcc will rot, since google
stopped supporting it.

Regards,
Sérgio Martins