Re: [PATCH rdma-core] Add a .travis.yml file

[Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

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On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 10:32:50AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 02:51:32PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>
> > I'm using 16.04 and it has gcc 5.4.0 as a default. Don't you think that
> > 6.2 is too "new" for us and other distributions?
>
> I don't understand how a compiler can be too new? The next round of
> rolling release distros are likely to use this compiler, and those are
> the distros that will first pick to up rdma-core.

I have an issue in front of my eyes where kernel fails to build with old
gcc version, while new gcc version works.

I don't want the same situation here.

>
> > gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2) 5.4.0 20160609
>
> This is exactly why the automatic builds should run the latest
> compiler, because people are not going to install it on their desktop.
>
> People will test with older compilers on their own. If we want to run
> automatic tests from travis with old compilers we can, but my results
> basically show that older compilers are just buggy and produce
> incorrect warnings.

My experience shows the same, however I want to minimize the test burden
on the users.

>
> Jason

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