[Libreoffice-qa] Microsoft Installer Error 1937 with TB 39 Windows builds of master for failing assembly signature(s) -- fdo 69601

[Michael Stahl]

On 23/09/13 11:49, Pedro wrote:
> Hi ape
> 
> 
> ape wrote
>> Look the log file on the page:
>> http://tinderbox.libreoffice.org/cgi-bin/gunzip.cgi?tree=MASTER&full-log=1379905201.19567
>> .
>>
>> Rows 169, 170 and 171 show that Kendy builds TB#39 MSI package for The
>> Vista OS, Windows-7 and Windows-8:
>> 169 checking for Windows SDK... found Windows SDK 8.0
>> (/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~2/WI3CF2~1/8.0)
>> 170 configure: WARNING: If a build created with VS 2012 should run on
>> Windows XP,
>> 171 configure: WARNING: use --with-windows-sdk=7.1A (requires VS 2012
>> Update 1 or newer).
> 
> Ok. The question is why? What is the point of disabling XP suport? Is TDF
> going to drop support for XP before Microsoft? Are the major changes being
> carried out (like OpenCL) incompatible with Windows XP?

where do you get the idea that support for XP would be dropped from
release builds now?  clearly the problem is just a badly configured
tinderbox, perhaps it has the non-updated release VS 2012 installed that
only has the 8.0 sdk.