[dpdk-dev] RHEL7 failures

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 10/5/2021 8:09 PM, Lincoln Lavoie wrote:
> Hello Qiming and Qi,
> 
> The CI is picking up failures when building on RHEL7, where warnings are
> being treated as errors.  This looks like something has been merged into
> the mainline, as it's failing across all patches.
> 
> Here is the specific failure:
> 
> ./drivers/net/ice/base/ice_parser_rt.c: In function '_hv_bit_sel':
> ../drivers/net/ice/base/ice_parser_rt.c:201:2: error: dereferencing
> type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
> [-Werror=strict-aliasing]
>    d64 = *(u64 *)&b[0];
>    ^
> ../drivers/net/ice/base/ice_parser_rt.c: In function '_reg_bit_sel':
> ../drivers/net/ice/base/ice_parser_rt.c:458:2: error: dereferencing
> type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
> [-Werror=strict-aliasing]
>    d32 = *(u32 *)&v[0];
>    ^
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> 
> You can download a full set of logs from here (for a failing run):
> https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/patchsets/19162/
> 

Issue was reported by David, Aman sent the fix [1] and it is already merged by David [2],
it should be fixed now, can you please double check?

[1]
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20211005115754.34117-1-aman.deep.singh@intel.com/

[2]
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=16b809d144dc2df7f31695b5abc64a809021b154