Re: [xml] Availability of libxml2-2.9.4 release candidate 1

[Stewart Brodie <sbrodie espial com>]

Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:

>   So as said a few weeks ago, I'm starting the process for a new release,
> I tagged in git a release candidate 1, and pushed to the server the
> signed tarball and rpms for rc1:
>
>    ftp://xmlsoft.org/xml/
>
>   I will run this on my machine for the newxt few weeks, and see if there
> is any nastyness popping up. I suggest others to do so too for their
> workload ! I still have a number of patches pending and not commited, so
> there will be more release candidates, at least one more next week-end,
> and at best we can have a final release in 2 weeks, but if we need more
> cycles, so be it !
>
>   So give it some testing, thanks !


This fails to cross-compile for me, due to use of icu-config and also the
configure script finding the build machine's libz.so rather than the
cross-compiled version when testing whether zlib is available.


I raised bug 765979 for this, and attached patches there directly that
resolve the issue for me.


These are actually be long-standing issues rather than new problems since
the 2.9.3 release. I've been patching the icu-config usage out of the
configure script in 2.9.1 for ages, but the zlib problem was new in 2.9.2 (I
think - we just jumped from 2.9.1 to 2.9.3 last week, which caused some of
our builds to all keel over)


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Stewart Brodie
Senior Software Engineer
Espial UK