F40 CI Failures on Previously Passing Code - 23.11 branch

[Patrick Robb]

Okay makes sense.

Maybe on the BBQ. Student + Staff and located at the IOL?

> On May 6, 2026, at 2:27 PM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
>