[Feature request] consider to provide libc.a for each API level about ndk HOT 6 CLOSED

I find libc.a locations are following , they are the latest version of libc

sysroot/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-android/libc.a
sysroot/usr/lib/i686-linux-android/libc.a
sysroot/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-android/libc.a
sysroot/usr/lib/arm-linux-androideabi/libc.a
sysroot/usr/lib/riscv64-linux-android/libc.a

This behaver breaks the cmake https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/CheckFunctionExists.html moudle.

It seems that the only way to fix this is to ask for cmake to remove -static and --static arguments when do CheckFunctionExists.

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many cmake projects create shared libraries, static libraries, dynamically linked executables or fully statically linked executables at the same time, In this case, CheckFunctionExists's result is not correct for shared libraries and dynamically linked executables if I pass -static to cmake.

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why NDK only provides the latest version of libc.a? to reduce the size?

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this behaver force me to split a big project (including shared libraries, static libraries, dynamically linked executables or fully statically linked executables) into some small packages, and each package is either a library package or an executable package.

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why NDK only provides the latest version of libc.a? to reduce the size?

Because there's no reason to do otherwise. There's no value in using an old libc.a.

This behaver breaks the cmake https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/CheckFunctionExists.html moudle.

You have to test the same configuration that you ship. If you're building multiple configurations, you need multiple tests.

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