Add a gyp flag to allow use of the system's version of libexpat

third_party/expat/expat.gyp

 # Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 {
+  'variables': {
+    'conditions': [
+      # On Linux, we implicitly already depend on expat via fontconfig;
+      # let's not pull it in twice.
+      ['os_posix == 1 and OS != "mac" and OS != "android"', {
+        'use_system_expat%': 1,
+      }, {
+        'use_system_expat%': 0,
+      }],
+    ],
+  },
   'target_defaults': {
     'defines': [
       '_LIB',
       'XML_STATIC',  # Compile for static linkage.
     ],
     'include_dirs': [
       'files/lib',
     ],
-    'dependencies': [
-    ]
   },
   'conditions': [
-    ['os_posix == 1 and OS != "mac" and OS != "android"', {
-      # On Linux, we implicitly already depend on expat via fontconfig;
-      # let's not pull it in twice.
+    ['use_system_expat == 1', {
       'targets': [
         {
           'target_name': 'expat',
           'type': 'none',
           'link_settings': {
             'libraries': [
               '-lexpat',
             ],
           },
+          'conditions': [
+            ['OS=="android"', {
+              'direct_dependent_settings': {
+                'include_dirs': [
+                  '<(android_src)/external/expat/lib',
+                ],
+              },
+            }],
+          ],
         },
       ],
-    }, {  # OS != linux
+    }, {  # else: use_system_expat != 1
       'targets': [
         {
           'target_name': 'expat',
           'type': 'static_library',
           'sources': [
             'files/lib/expat.h',
             'files/lib/xmlparse.c',
             'files/lib/xmlrole.c',
             'files/lib/xmltok.c',
           ],
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               'defines': [
                 'HAVE_EXPAT_CONFIG_H',
               ],
             }],
           ],
         },
       ],
     }],
   ],
 }