Bump boost for Android to 1.76 to align with iOS + fix

[kelset]

Summary

The reason why I'm working on this is to reduce the delta between this and the react-native-macos fork, in particular with the android patch folder "Build": https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-macos/tree/main/android-patches/patches/Build (it's a long story)

While checking the changes in there, I noticed that one of them was a bump of boost. Looking back into main (here), I then noticed that there have been two bumps to boot in the repo so far:

• a combo update 5 years ago to 1.63:
  • 193afff
  • 5c24a91
• and an update for the iOS side to 1.76 by @Kudo last year: [ios] Upgrade folly to 2021.06.28.00 and boost to 1.76.0 #31840

So this quickly turned into this: the PR wants to re-align the version of boost used in both iOS and Android.

I explored the option of bumping both to 1.78 (latest at the time of writing: https://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_78_0.html) but then I noticed that there's a Flipper dependency, Flipper-Boost-iOSX, on the iOS pods side that has been released only once and it seems to imply that it's 1.76 only compatible https://github.com/priteshrnandgaonkar/Flipper-Boost-iOSX/releases/tag/1.76.0.1.11.

So going to 1.78 at least for now seems like a no-go, and I've settled for just aligning everything to 1.76 and just like iOS, move away from boost-for-react-native in favour of the original one.

While doing so, I also noticed that the React/third-party.xcconfig still had a reference to 1.68 instead of 1.76 which seems like a leftover from Kudo's PR... it's probably because it was not doing anything in the first place, so lmk if you want me to delete it.

Changelog

[Android] [Changed] - Bump boost for Android to 1.76 to align with iOS

Test Plan

CI is green (aside an unrelated ios rntester job that is also broken on main) ✅
Locally both RNTester and new app work:

[analysis-bot]

Platform	Engine	Arch	Size (bytes)	Diff
ios	-	universal	n/a	--

Base commit: 1e51ac2
Branch: main

[analysis-bot]

Platform	Engine	Arch	Size (bytes)	Diff
android	hermes	arm64-v8a	7,766,434	-51
android	hermes	armeabi-v7a	7,175,397	-9
android	hermes	x86	8,074,157	+1
android	hermes	x86_64	8,053,357	+28
android	jsc	arm64-v8a	9,643,677	-48
android	jsc	armeabi-v7a	8,417,941	-23
android	jsc	x86	9,592,907	+1
android	jsc	x86_64	10,190,122	+23

Base commit: 1e51ac2
Branch: main

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[cortinico]

Thanks for doing this @kelset 🙏

Change looks fine on my end. I'm importing it to see how it behaves internally. I don't see any major blockers on top of my mind but I'll have to take a closer look at this to make sure everything works fine.

(And we want this to be merged before we cut 0.69)

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This pull request was successfully merged by @kelset in 5cd6367.

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