Some baseline thoughts

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 2:50 AM, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:20:54PM +0100, Stephan Bergmann <sbergman at redhat.com> wrote:
>> *  macOS 10.8 (<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=ReleaseNotes/4.4&oldid=99539#Mac_OS_X>)
>>
>> Bumping this to macOS 10.9 would get rid of the last known case of
>> !HAVE_THREADSAFE_STATICS (cf. <https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=aa2fbfc4faa24cf7ee5aa9afdafddbd536ac4fec>
>> "Found out that Mac OS X 10.9 has working threadsafe statics").  What is
>> unknown however is the status on Android and iOS.  Having
>> HAVE_THREADSAFE_STATICS everywhere would allow to clean up code, see e.g.
>> <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/35258/> "replace double-checked-locking
>> with C++11 static initializer".
>
> Do we have any tinderbox building against the 10.8 SDK? I just realized
> that the xmlsec we bundle on master now requires libxml 2.8, and as far
> as I see Jenkins builds against the 10.9 SDK. So there is a risk that
> the 10.8 SDK provides an older libxml and this went unnoticed.

it got noticed today. the beta1 build faird for that very reason

the code use input_id of parserCtxt which was introduced in 2.8

that box use 10.8sdk which come with libxml:
#define LIBXML_DOTTED_VERSION "2.7.8"

Norbert