From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: Compiling DPDK with CentOS6 Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 17:56:11 +0200 Message-ID: <1726788.9oXxB9efqE@xps> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: Shahar Salzman Return-path: Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 591942C18 for ; Thu, 3 May 2018 17:56:13 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Hi 03/05/2018 16:20, Shahar Salzman: > I am using spdk, hence dpdk. Following the termination of CentOS6 > support, I did some work in order to get dpdk to work on CentOS6 > (gcc version 4.4.7). CentOS6 is really old. > I had to remove some of the modules due to compilation errors, > use -fno-strict-aliasing to avoid non issues dereferencing > void* arrays and a single patch in the code which has to do > with the way my gcc handles the attribure deprecated. > > I did all my work on dpdk tag v18.02. > Would you consider taking some of this to dpdk? > It would be really helpful for us to maintain support for > CentOS6 and its toolchain, at least in the near future, > and we would like to use the latest dpdk stable. For such an old distribution, we cannot put expectations on the latest releases of DPDK, unfortunately. Is there a DPDK package for CentOS6? If not, better to use old DPDK, or switch to a recent distribution.