Hi all,
I don't know if anyone is seeing their macOS Intel builds time out on
Jenkins, but over the last week I have been seeing this happen
frequently for my gerrit patch submissions.
I was able to track down the problem to an infinite loop that occurs in
the sw_ooxmlexport17 unit test. This infinite loop is 100% reproducible
when I run make check on master on my old Intel MacBook Pro despite
rebasing to master and running a clean build each day.
I have not ever seen this infinite loop on my much faster macOS Silicon
laptop so my guess is that this is a bug that only appears on slower
machines.
I have submitted a patch that fixes this infinite loop, but IMHO it is
just a quick hack and I know that my fix will terminate the layout loop
early when opening, saving, printing, and exporting to PDF with a Writer
document without huge text tables that span multiple pages:
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/143947/4
Does anyone have any suggestions or idea for a better way to fix this
bug other than my quick hack?
Patrick
