[dpdk-dev] clang build failing in v2.0.0 from poisoned symbols

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 09:31:02PM -0700, Matthew Hall wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 08:37:46PM -0700, Matthew Hall wrote:
> > dpdk/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h:68:20: error: poisoning existing macro [-Werror]
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I finally figured out what happened. My older DPDK build configuration file 
> had defined the poisoned macros to try to enable the features they used to 
> cover, which had been obsoleted and/or replaced.
> 
> I am happy to be able to report that my app compiled with no changes once I 
> rebased my locally tweaked DPDK onto the v2.0.0 tag... very impressive work... 
> we might not be binary compatible but we definitely seem to be source 
> compatible for my app at least. Considering most people use the static library 
> this is not a bad state to start with I'd say.
> 
> Matthew.

Thank you. It's finally nice to get some good news about compatibility! :-)