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.richard...@intel.com> > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2023 4:16 PM > > > To: dev@dpdk.org > > > Cc: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com>; Morten Brørup > > > <m...@smartsharesystems.com>; Tyler Retzlaff > > > <roret...@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.richard...@intel.com> > > > Acked-by: Morten Brørup <m...@smartsharesystems.com> > > > Acked-by: Tyler Retzlaff <roret...@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
