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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Shahar Salzman <shahar.salzman@kaminario.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Compiling DPDK with CentOS6
Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 17:56:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1726788.9oXxB9efqE@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM3PR04MB370A12BC7C6BD0231FF78C189870@AM3PR04MB370.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-03 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-03 14:20 Shahar Salzman
2018-05-03 15:56 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2018-05-07  7:15   ` Shahar Salzman
2018-05-07 13:43     ` Thomas Monjalon

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