From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shahar Salzman Subject: Re: Compiling DPDK with CentOS6 Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 07:15:16 +0000 Message-ID: References: , <1726788.9oXxB9efqE@xps> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" To: Thomas Monjalon Return-path: Received: from EUR01-VE1-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-ve1eur01on0130.outbound.protection.outlook.com [104.47.1.130]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658C52C6E for ; Mon, 7 May 2018 09:15:18 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1726788.9oXxB9efqE@xps> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" OK, we are building dpdk from sources, used version 16.07, but would like t= o upgrade to a newer version in order to be inline with spdk master. On the supported OS page RHEL6.5 is mentioned as supported (uses the 4.4.X = gcc collection), is the page outdated? ________________________________ From: Thomas Monjalon Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2018 6:56:11 PM To: Shahar Salzman Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Compiling DPDK with CentOS6 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.