Re: [LFS Trac] #5836: xz-5.8.2

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#5836: xz-5.8.2
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 Reporter:  Bruce Dubbs  |       Owner:  lfs-book
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  12.5
Component:  Book         |     Version:  git
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |
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Comment (by Bruce Dubbs):

 5.8.2 (2025-12-17)

     liblzma:

         - Fix the build on ARM64 on glibc versions older than
           2.24 (2016). They don't have HWCAP_CRC32 in <sys/auxv.h>.

         - Disable CLMUL CRC code when building for 32-bit x86 with
           old MSVC versions. This avoids a compiler bug. The exact
           compiler version in which the issue was fixed is unknown,
           but VS 2022 17.13 (MSVC 19.43.34808) is known to work, so
           CLMUL CRC on 32-bit x86 is disabled with MSVC versions
           older than that.

     xz:

         - Add a workaround for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel bug
           which made xz fail with "xz: Failed to enable the sandbox".
           It only occurs with xz 5.8.0 and 5.8.1 binaries built for
           other distros. For example, running Debian 13 in a container
           on RHEL/CentOS 9 would trigger the issue.

           The bug was introduced in RHEL 9 kernel 5.14.0-603.el9
           (2025-07-30) and fixed in 5.14.0-648.el9 (2025-12-05).
           However, as of writing, the fixed kernel isn't available
           to RHEL 9 users yet, so including the workaround in this
           xz release seems reasonable. The workaround will be removed
           when it's no longer needed.

           xzdec was also affected by this issue.

         - On AIX, don't use fsync() on directories because it fails.

         - Fix the build on Emscripten.

         - Fix the build on clang-cl on Windows.

         - Take resource limits (RLIMIT_DATA, RLIMIT_AS, and RLIMIT_VMEM)
           into account when determining the default memory usage limit
           for multithreaded mode. This should prevent xz from failing
           when a resource limit has been set to a value that is less
           than 1/4 of total RAM. Other memory limits can still trigger
           the same issue, for example, Linux cgroup v2 memory.max.

     Build systems:

         - When symbol versioning is enabled, pass --undefined-version
           to the linker if the option is supported. This fixes the
           build when using LLVM's lld and some liblzma features have
           been disabled at build time.

         - ARM64: Fix autodetection of fast unaligned memory access when
           using GCC and -mstrict-align is in effect. Previously the
           build systems would incorrectly guess that unaligned access
           is fast, which would result in much slower binaries than
           needed. The fix is a workaround for GCC bug 111555;
           autodetection already worked with Clang.

         - LoongArch: Autodetect if fast unaligned memory access is
           supported. This can improve compression speed by 15 % (but
           not decompression speed).

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