[ovs-dev] [PATCH branch-2.5] travis: Drop 2.6.32 kernel build.

[Simon Horman]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 04:06:02PM +0300, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> gcc >= 5 can't build Linux kernel 2.6.32 and this will never
> change because 2.6.32 is not supported for a last few years.
> 
> TravsCI migrated to use Ubuntu Xenial by defualt with gcc 5
> installed. Dropping the 2.6.32 build item to unlock green build.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at samsung.com>
> ---
> 
> Sending this patch as it was a preferred solution for a few
> people in discussion here:
>    https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2019-August/361278.html

I think its fine to drop building against v2.6.32 on Xenial - as you say
it can't work. But I would think that it is also good to exercise building
v2.6.32, f.e. by building on Trusty.

> Two patches additionally needs to be backported for successful Travis
> build:
> 
>   a7021b08b 2018-07-09 | configure: Disable -Wnull-pointer-arithmetic Clang warning. [Ben Pfaff]
>   1e78e3085 2017-01-26 | libX.pc: use the correct output directory [Aaron Conole]
> 
> I could backport them along with applying this patch.
> 
>  .travis.yml | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
> index 90aedef7e..92132e384 100644
> --- a/.travis.yml
> +++ b/.travis.yml
> @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ env:
>    - KERNEL=3.10.96
>    - KERNEL=3.4.110
>    - KERNEL=3.2.76
> -  - KERNEL=2.6.32.70
>  
>  script: ./.travis/build.sh $OPTS
>  
> -- 
> 2.17.1
>