F40 CI Failures on Previously Passing Code - 23.11 branch

[Thomas Monjalon]

06/05/2026 19:58, Adam Hassick:
> On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 1:27 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
> >
> > 06/05/2026 16:58, Lincoln Lavoie:
> > > On F44, it seems like 23.11 may have a compile issue with the Clang version
> > > that comes with that OS release. What is the expectation / desire for
> > > testing older LTS versions with updated OS releases (that technically came
> > > out far after the original LTS was cut).
> >
> > I would say that we want to support our LTS branches on new OS releases
> > if the effort is reasonnable.
> > Some users may want to upgrade their OS without changing their application.
> 
[...]
> However, there are legitimate build issues on clang with Fedora 44.
> Here's the error I'm seeing:
> 
> 18:25:40  ../drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c:3459:43: error: '__COUNTER__' is
> a C2y extension [-Werror,-Wc2y-extensions]

There are some recent commits removing __COUNTER__:
https://dpdk.org/id/facca4dd
https://dpdk.org/id/ebceabdd

We should backport them into LTS branches.