F40 CI Failures on Previously Passing Code - 23.11 branch

[Adam Hassick]

On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM Patrick Robb <patrickrobb1997 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.

Our current plan is to deploy Fedora 44 testing with 23.11 and 24.11
LTS disabled, until the LTS maintainers backport the fix.
Please let us know when that is done so we can rebuild the images and
turn that testing back on, thanks.

> >