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

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 01:05:23PM +0100, Stewart Brodie wrote:
> 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)

  Okay, since the patches fallback to the previous code if pkg-config step
fails I think this is the best way to handle this, so pushed and applied

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=3d75c2e82806955542a41ff62a5be25e04287d89

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=45f0abd4278776e1c12df38672b8d20a3cc471a8

 Thanks !

Daniel

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