[ovs-dev] Travis build failures due to base image change to Xenial.

Gregory Rose gvrose8192 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 1 22:27:39 UTC 2019


On 8/1/2019 8:53 AM, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
>
> I'm trying to fix TravisCI build failures on older branches. Recently they
> started to change default images from Trusty to Xenial. Not all the repositories
> affected so far, but main openvswitch github repo already builds with Ubuntu
> Xenial as a base image.
>
> This caused few issues on older OVS branches due to more recent compilers:
>    https://travis-ci.org/openvswitch/ovs/builds/565990648
>
> There are patches that needs to be backported:
>
> * Followiong patch needed for all branches from 2.9 to 2.5:
> a7021b08b 2018-07-09 | configure: Disable -Wnull-pointer-arithmetic Clang warning. [Ben Pfaff]
>
> * Branches 2.7 - 2.5 additionally needs:
> 1e78e3085 2017-01-26 | libX.pc: use the correct output directory [Aaron Conole]
>
> Above makes branches 2.9 - 2.6 to build correctly.
> I prepared backports for these branches and could push them.
>
>
>
> However, there is an additional issue with branch-2.5:
>
> branch-2.5 has kernel 2.6.32 in the .travis.yml, but gcc >= 5 is not
> able to build this kernel. This kernel reached its EOL few years ago
> already and will never be fixed. So, there are few options for this issue:
>
> 1. Simply remove 2.6.32 kernel from the build matrix.
>     (I have a simple patch for this.)

That'd be my vote but if there are objections then...

>
> 2. Officially drop support of this (or maybe some other too) kernel on branch-2.5.
>     Note: Starting from branch-2.6 OVS officially supports only kernels >= 3.10.
>     This will, probably, require documentation updates on all newer branches.
>
> 3. Drop support of branch-2.5, i.e. stop backporting patches and preparing
>     stable releases.
>     This might be not that easy as ovs-2.5 claimed as an LTS release right now.
>     Does anybody use it?
>
> 4. Add 'dist: trusty' to .travis.yml on branch-2.5 so Travis will keep using
>     Ubuntu Trusty image with old compilers that able to build kernel 2.6.32.

This would be the second choice for me.

Thanks!

- Greg



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