On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:02:45 +0000
Raslan Darawsheh <rasl...@mellanox.com> wrote:
> Hi Stephan,
>
> I've just tried to apply your patches on top of current master branch and I
> have the following two issues:
> 1- compilation is failing with the following error when compiling with
> RTE_TARGET=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc:
> /root/dpdk/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/include/rte_common.h:122:30: error:
> cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Werror=int-to-pointer-cast]
> #define RTE_PTR_ADD(ptr, x) ((void*)((uintptr_t)(ptr) + (x)))
> ^
> /root/dpdk/buildtools/pmdinfogen/pmdinfogen.c:99:9: note: in expansion of
> macro 'RTE_PTR_ADD'
> return RTE_PTR_ADD(info->hdr,
> ^
> 2- compilation is also failing with the following errors when compiling with
> RTE_TARGET=i686-native-linuxapp-gcc
> CC linux/vmbus_uio.o
> /root/dpdk/drivers/bus/vmbus/linux/vmbus_bus.c: In function
> 'rte_vmbus_map_device':
> /root/dpdk/drivers/bus/vmbus/linux/vmbus_bus.c:194:39: error: passing
> argument 2 of 'eal_parse_sysfs_value' from incompatible pointer type
> [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
> if (eal_parse_sysfs_value(filename, &res->len) < 0) {
> ^
> In file included from /root/dpdk/drivers/bus/vmbus/linux/vmbus_bus.c:22:0:
> /root/dpdk/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_filesystem.h:123:5: note: expected 'long
> unsigned int *' but argument is of type 'uint64_t * {aka long long unsigned
> int *}'
> int eal_parse_sysfs_value(const char *filename, unsigned long *val);
>
>
> I noticed one additional new dependency which is uuid-dev and I think you
> might be missing the documentation of that.
>
> Kindest regards,
> Raslan Darawsheh
I rebased against dpdk.org master yesterday.
What version of Gcc? I don't see this on Gcc 7.3.0 and build on 64 bit.
Will update the documentation and fix a couple of typos.
