Re: [PATCH v4] build: update DPDK to use C11 standard

[Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 04:50:45PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 03:47:03PM +0000, Ali Alnubani wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 4:16 PM
> > > To: dev@dpdk.org
> > > Cc: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>; Morten Brørup
> > > <mb@smartsharesystems.com>; Tyler Retzlaff
> > > <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
> > > Subject: [PATCH v4] build: update DPDK to use C11 standard
> > > 
> > > As previously announced, DPDK 23.11 will require a C11 supporting
> > > compiler and will use the C11 standard in all builds.
> > > 
> > > Forcing use of the C standard, rather than the standard with
> > > GNU extensions, means that some posix definitions which are not in
> > > the C standard are unavailable by default. We fix this by ensuring
> > > the correct defines or cflags are passed to the components that
> > > need them.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> > > Acked-by: Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
> > > Acked-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
> > > ---
> > 
> > By the way, I also see this build failure in RHEL 7:
> > 
> It's my understanding that we no longer support the default compilers in
> RHEL 7, since gcc 4.8.5 doesn't support the necessary c11 standard atomics.

yes, support is being dropped for RHEL 7

http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2023-February/263516.html

it seems like now that we are in 23.11 merge window the CI pipelines for
the unsupported targets can be decomissioned?

> 
> /Bruce