[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v5 1/2] mk: fix cross build errors

[Thomas Monjalon]

30/05/2018 11:41, Gavin Hu:
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> > 30/05/2018 04:45, Gavin Hu:
> > > From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> > > > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 04:45:55PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > > > 28/05/2018 15:24, Bruce Richardson:
> > > > > > Would a simpler solution for this not be to put "-Wno-implicit-
> > > > fallthrough"
> > > > > > for pmdinfogen? GCC will not give a warning for an unrecognised "-
> > Wno"
> > > > > > flag when compiling, unless there are other errors. This means
> > > > > > we can just use the flag without bothering with version checks.
> > > > >
> > > > > No, it does not work.
> > > > > I have this error with clang 5.0.1:
> > > > >     error: unknown warning option '-Wno-format-truncation'
> > > > >
> > > > Yes, you still need to check for GCC to use the flag, just not for a
> > > > specific version of GCC.
> > > >
> > > > /Bruce
> > > [Gavin Hu] Hi Thomas, '-Wno-format-truncation' is applied to gcc only, not
> > to clang.
> > > Gcc, icc and clang have their own WERROR_FLAGS, they should not mix up
> > with each other.
> >
> > Now I understand what we missed from the beginning: I am testing with
> > meson.
> > This flag is added unconditionnaly in config/meson.build.
> 
> [Gavin Hu] Hi Thomas and Bruce, then do you have more comments on the v5 patch?
> Any comments are welcome, if no, can you act the patches for merging?

Of course we have comments!
I keep telling you that compilation is not working.
Try meson compilation: devtools/test-meson-builds.sh