5.3.0.3 firebird race condition

[Christoph Willing]

On 14/02/17 18:13, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> On 02/14/2017 02:03 AM, Chris Willing wrote:
>> Building 5.3.0.3 using the supplied firebird
>> (external/tarballs/Firebird-3.0.0.32483-0.tar.bz2) results in
>> intermittent failure. It seems to be a known problem
>> (https://www.mail-archive.com/firebird-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg13374.html),
>>
>> possibly fixed in a later version.
> 
> (Addressed on LO master towards 5.4 with
> <https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=592f4f6a5941e42e6b2b3fa76e74b8ad509724c9>
> "external/firebird: Backport fix for CORE-5452 causing spurious SEGV".)
> 
Thanks Stephan,

I used that commit to patch the official 5.3.0.3. tarball and tried
multiple builds, all of which were successful. Looks like a good fix.

chris