[ovs-dev] ppc build fixed/testsuite results

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 10:40:15PM -0200, Flavio Leitner wrote:
> In order to get the testsuite log, I have tried again and it works now
> commit fd2e50cd333324ca18d8186a5c9211aa03c439cf
> Author: James Page <james.page at ubuntu.com>
> Date:   Thu Dec 5 17:29:05 2013 +0000
> 
>     Add check for -latomic
>     
>     Later versions of gcc on some architectures push atomic functions
>     out into a separate atomic library; add a check to see when this
>     is required and add it to LIBS if need be.
>     
>     Specifically the problem was observed on GCC 4.8.2 on powerpc
>     architecture for Ubuntu 14.04:
>     
>     https://launchpadlibrarian.net/155235096/buildlog_ubuntu-trusty-powerpc.openvswitch_2.0.0-0ubunt
>     
>     Signed-off-by: James Page <james.page at ubuntu.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
> 
> 
> It is applied on master and on branch-2.1.  I wonder if the next stable
> version will be 2.1 or if there will be more releases on branch-2.0.
> If so, can you apply that commit on branch-2.0 as well?

Low-risk bug fixes are always appropriate on branches.  Applied.