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Our normal method of locating the compilers in the NDK is to set --with-toolchain-prefix when compiling for Android. However, the clang binaries are in a different location than would otherwise be implied by --with-toolchain-prefix. Additionally, we still need to know about --with-toolchain-prefix because the NDK clang needs to be pointed there so clang can find important binaries like the linker and because various other bits of the build system depend on the --with-toolchain-prefix value as well. So we need a separate mechanism for communicating the whereabouts of the NDK clang. We can't set CC and CXX because doing so would conflict with the CC and CXX values exported to the js/src/ subconfigure. But Android already has an extra_toolchain_flags function that we use for informing moz.configure about additional flags needed solely for Android, and we can use a similar trick to communicate the existence of the NDK's clang to the main C/C++ compiler selection process.
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