Re: [dpdk-dev] Compiling DPDK with CentOS6

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

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 On the supported OS page RHEL6.5 is mentioned as supported (uses the 4.4.X gcc collection), is the page outdated?

Yes, this page is outdated.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 <thomas@monjalon.net>
> 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.