Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ci: update travis to use bionic

["Laatz, Kevin" <kevin.laatz@intel.com>]

On 17/12/2019 14:44, Aaron Conole wrote:
> Kevin Laatz <kevin.laatz@intel.com> writes:
>
>> Currently, the Travis CI is using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) which is
>> becoming increasingly outdated. This patch updates Travis to use Ubuntu
>> 18.04 LTS (Bionic) which will give us the benefit of more up-to-date
>> packages being availble and the newer features that come with them.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kevin Laatz <kevin.laatz@intel.com>
>> ---
>>   .travis.yml | 4 ++--
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
>> index 8f90d06f2..6e0626353 100644
>> --- a/.travis.yml
>> +++ b/.travis.yml
>> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ compiler:
>>     - gcc
>>     - clang
>>   
>> -dist: xenial
>> +dist: bionic
> This LGTM.
>
>>   os:
>>     - linux
>> @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ aarch64_packages: &aarch64_packages
>>   
>>   extra_packages: &extra_packages
>>     - *required_packages
>> -  - [libbsd-dev, libpcap-dev, libcrypto++-dev, libjansson4]
>> +  - [libbsd-dev, libpcap-dev, libcrypto++-dev, libjansson4, abigail-tools]
> Will adding the abigail-tools automatically invoke the ABI checks?
> Otherwise, maybe it's best to save this for a future commit.
>
> I'll look for the robot build when it comes by.  Thanks!

Yes, the meson option that will be introduced with the "Add ABI 
compatibility checks to the meson build" [1] patch set will be set to 
"auto" meaning the checks will run if abidiff is found.

[1] http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=7830

>
>>   build_32b_packages: &build_32b_packages
>>     - *required_packages