Re: [PATCH v5] build: update DPDK to use C11 standard

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:34:43 +0200
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:

> 03/08/2023 15:36, David Marchand:
> > On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 2:32 PM Bruce Richardson
> > <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:  
> > >
> > > 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>  
> > Tested-by: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>
> > 
> > The CI results look good.
> > 
> > Applied, thanks!  
> 
> The compiler support is updated, that's fine.
> Should we go further and document some major Linux distributions?
> One concern is to make clear RHEL 7 is not supported anymore.
> Should it be a release note?
> 
> 

Should be addressed in linux/sys_reqs.rst as well as deprecation notice.
Also, is it possible to add automated check in build for compiler version?