[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ci: update travis to use bionic

[Aaron Conole]

"Laatz, Kevin" <kevin.laatz at intel.com> writes:

> On 17/12/2019 14:44, Aaron Conole wrote:
>> Kevin Laatz <kevin.laatz at intel.com> writes:
>>
>>> Currently, the Travis CI is using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) which is
>>> becoming increasingly outdated. This patch updates Travis to use Ubuntu
>>> 18.04 LTS (Bionic) which will give us the benefit of more up-to-date
>>> packages being availble and the newer features that come with them.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kevin Laatz <kevin.laatz at intel.com>
>>> ---
>>>   .travis.yml | 4 ++--
>>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
>>> index 8f90d06f2..6e0626353 100644
>>> --- a/.travis.yml
>>> +++ b/.travis.yml
>>> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ compiler:
>>>     - gcc
>>>     - clang
>>>   -dist: xenial
>>> +dist: bionic
>> This LGTM.
>>
>>>   os:
>>>     - linux
>>> @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ aarch64_packages: &aarch64_packages
>>>     extra_packages: &extra_packages
>>>     - *required_packages
>>> -  - [libbsd-dev, libpcap-dev, libcrypto++-dev, libjansson4]
>>> +  - [libbsd-dev, libpcap-dev, libcrypto++-dev, libjansson4, abigail-tools]
>> Will adding the abigail-tools automatically invoke the ABI checks?
>> Otherwise, maybe it's best to save this for a future commit.
>>
>> I'll look for the robot build when it comes by.  Thanks!
>
> Yes, the meson option that will be introduced with the "Add ABI
> compatibility checks to the meson build" [1] patch set will be set to
> "auto" meaning the checks will run if abidiff is found.

Okay.  I'm fine with that change.

> [1] http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=7830

I noticed the shared builds are failing:
  https://travis-ci.com/ovsrobot/dpdk/jobs/268042693

But not sure what the issue is with librte_mempool_ring

Can you see why it would fail under bionic?

>>
>>>   build_32b_packages: &build_32b_packages
>>>     - *required_packages