|FAILURE| pw169429 [PATCH] [RFC] eal: allow setting random number ge

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Test-Label: iol-unit-arm64-testing
Test-Status: FAILURE
https://dpdk.org/patch/169429

_Testing issues_

Submitter: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
Date: Friday, September 11 2026 22:58:45 
DPDK git baseline: Repo:dpdk
  Branch: master
  CommitID:d55ccd4e6de64e3f797f60de9e81f1d60f849775

169429 --> testing issues

Upstream job id: Generic-Unit-Test-DPDK#479520

Test environment and result as below:

+-------------------------------+----------------+------------------------------+--------------+---------------------------+
|          Environment          | dpdk_unit_test | cryptodev_sw_snow3g_autotest | lpm_autotest | cryptodev_sw_zuc_autotest |
+===============================+================+==============================+==============+===========================+
| Ubuntu 22.04                  | WARN           | SKIPPED                      | SKIPPED      | SKIPPED                   |
+-------------------------------+----------------+------------------------------+--------------+---------------------------+
| Fedora Linux 43               | WARN           | SKIPPED                      | SKIPPED      | SKIPPED                   |
+-------------------------------+----------------+------------------------------+--------------+---------------------------+
| CentOS Stream 9               | WARN           | SKIPPED                      | SKIPPED      | SKIPPED                   |
+-------------------------------+----------------+------------------------------+--------------+---------------------------+
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.8  | WARN           | SKIPPED                      | SKIPPED      | SKIPPED                   |
+-------------------------------+----------------+------------------------------+--------------+---------------------------+
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 | WARN           | SKIPPED                      | SKIPPED      | SKIPPED                   |
+-------------------------------+----------------+------------------------------+--------------+---------------------------+
| Debian GNU/Linux 12           | WARN           | SKIPPED                      | SKIPPED      | SKIPPED                   |
+-------------------------------+----------------+------------------------------+--------------+---------------------------+
| Fedora Linux 44               | WARN           | SKIPPED                      | SKIPPED      | SKIPPED                   |
+-------------------------------+----------------+------------------------------+--------------+---------------------------+
| Debian GNU/Linux 13           | WARN           | WARN                         | SKIPPED      | WARN                      |
+-------------------------------+----------------+------------------------------+--------------+---------------------------+
| CentOS Stream 10              | WARN           | SKIPPED                      | SKIPPED      | SKIPPED                   |
+-------------------------------+----------------+------------------------------+--------------+---------------------------+
| Ubuntu 26.04                  | WARN           | SKIPPED                      | SKIPPED      | SKIPPED                   |
+-------------------------------+----------------+------------------------------+--------------+---------------------------+
| Ubuntu 24.04                  | WARN           | SKIPPED                      | WARN         | SKIPPED                   |
+-------------------------------+----------------+------------------------------+--------------+---------------------------+

==== 20 line log output for Ubuntu 24.04 (lpm_autotest): ====
21 |
../lib/eal/common/rte_random.c:250:27: error: nested extern declaration of 'getenv' [-Werror=nested-externs]
250 |         const char *env = getenv("DPDK_RANDOM_SEED");
|                           ^~~~~~
../lib/eal/common/rte_random.c:250:27: error: initialization of 'const char *' from 'int' makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Werror=int-conversion]
../lib/eal/common/rte_random.c:255:24: error: implicit declaration of function 'strtoull'; did you mean 'strcoll'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
255 |                 seed = strtoull(env, &end, 0);
|                        ^~~~~~~~
|                        strcoll
../lib/eal/common/rte_random.c:255:24: error: nested extern declaration of 'strtoull' [-Werror=nested-externs]
../lib/eal/common/rte_random.c:257:34: error: 'EXIT_FAILURE' undeclared (first use in this function)
257 |                         rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE,
|                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~
../lib/eal/common/rte_random.c:257:34: note: 'EXIT_FAILURE' is defined in header '<stdlib.h>'; did you forget to '#include <stdlib.h>'?
../lib/eal/common/rte_random.c:257:34: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
[86/1655] Compiling C object lib/librte_eal.a.p/eal_linux_eal_vfio_mp_sync.c.o
[87/1655] Compiling C object lib/librte_eal.a.p/eal_linux_eal_vfio.c.o
[88/1655] Generating symbol file lib/librte_log.so.27.0.p/librte_log.so.27.0.symbols
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
==== End log output ====

Ubuntu 22.04
	Kernel: 5.15
	Compiler: gcc gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04.3) 11.4.0
	CPU: Unknown Unknown
	Libc: GNU 2.35

Fedora Linux 43
	Kernel: 7.0
	Compiler: gcc gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7)
	CPU: ThunderX2-99xx 1
	Libc: GNU 2.42

CentOS Stream 9
	Kernel: 7.0
	Compiler: gcc gcc (GCC) 11.5.0 20240719 (Red Hat 11.5.0-14)
	CPU: ThunderX2-99xx 1
	Libc: GNU 2.34

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.8
	Kernel: 7.0
	Compiler: gcc gcc (GCC) 11.5.0 20240719 (Red Hat 11.5.0-14)
	CPU: ThunderX2-99xx 1
	Libc: GNU 2.34

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2
	Kernel: 7.0
	Compiler: gcc gcc (GCC) 14.3.1 20251022 (Red Hat 14.3.1-4)
	CPU: ThunderX2-99xx 1
	Libc: GNU 2.39

Debian GNU/Linux 12
	Kernel: 7.0
	Compiler: gcc gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14+deb12u1) 12.2.0
	CPU: ThunderX2-99xx 1
	Libc: GNU 2.36

Fedora Linux 44
	Kernel: 7.0
	Compiler: gcc gcc (GCC) 16.1.1 20260515 (Red Hat 16.1.1-2)
	CPU: ThunderX2-99xx 1
	Libc: GNU 2.43

Debian GNU/Linux 13
	Kernel: 7.0
	Compiler: gcc gcc (Debian 14.2.0-19) 14.2.0
	CPU: ThunderX2-99xx 1
	Libc: GNU 2.41

CentOS Stream 10
	Kernel: 7.0
	Compiler: gcc gcc (GCC) 14.3.1 20251022 (Red Hat 14.3.1-4)
	CPU: ThunderX2-99xx 1
	Libc: GNU 2.39

Ubuntu 26.04
	Kernel: 7.0
	Compiler: gcc gcc (Ubuntu 15.2.0-16ubuntu1) 15.2.0
	CPU: ThunderX2-99xx 1
	Libc: GNU 2.43

Ubuntu 24.04
	Kernel: 7.0
	Compiler: gcc gcc (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04.1) 13.3.0
	CPU: ThunderX2-99xx 1
	Libc: GNU 2.39

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