From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: Compiling DPDK with CentOS6 Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 15:43:37 +0200 Message-ID: <2682751.JPnioz8cGl@xps> References: <1726788.9oXxB9efqE@xps> 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 out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (out3-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B09382F4F for ; Mon, 7 May 2018 15:43:40 +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" 07/05/2018 09:15, Shahar Salzman: > OK, we are building dpdk from sources, used version 16.07, but would like to 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 On the supported OS page RHEL6.5 is mentioned as supported (uses the 4.4.X gcc collection), is the page outdated? Yes, this page is outdated. I removed this page last year: http://dpdk.org/commit/fc2ffae923d2b > ________________________________ > 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.