From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 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) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E4A225EB; Thu, 3 May 2018 11:56:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend1 ([10.202.2.162]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 03 May 2018 11:56:12 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=dylbc8JMBIm+7GY9RY+0ZOW/hx EwUJJim5SriE6+4K8=; b=VQFkeooqnwOiQhaVHnvaXGOiskfJjgSAjmvljkJPHT fgk0hHEqINElsUhf3ys2jYNBA1ybPGlw442R02yCyJEhdhLCrEutg7YU18WA5K7k yLh9gp8l4is0tUq0S/juvvYJ8RIoMc4ObEVZVpZ/7S9oZW4piBalFl4ZbmjTGebx g= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm2; bh=dylbc8 JMBIm+7GY9RY+0ZOW/hxEwUJJim5SriE6+4K8=; b=jDBWdDPSSYWE5V7d4szbDj hzdGyCmCHXtOUBNoFJexlnZ6OUIIlpndZmbXVXrzUre+LTJzGE1HC2nB9TDCl0Ko /jGx/DlifaNJG6A/Qpw4n8SSPA5NTxyPe7PDKja/vtHq+gzehPaxH+9mwmcKkqob 1yb9wZyMlo5Ndl3OyieGtH/eWM/5m7B5mcC4pMIa//Z59zl/QHkosKLyrKDFuBeP 0XzUksgl9hWmXXpkdej1f8inK3DpCly3sSZ1NsOOLHCbA7IE2bIi9OvfurJRaO9F 7k31yJ+uAGGXcyllxwQVSG+NkbG0k5EBBD6laW9+9uxi+qZihMEDPZzUGiv34hlQ == X-ME-Sender: Received: from xps.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 58F5DE509C; Thu, 3 May 2018 11:56:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Shahar Salzman Cc: dev@dpdk.org Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 17:56:11 +0200 Message-ID: <1726788.9oXxB9efqE@xps> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Compiling DPDK with CentOS6 X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 15:56:13 -0000 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.