[dpdk-dev] Compiling DPDK with CentOS6

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On the supported OS page RHEL6.5 is mentioned as supported (uses the 4.4.X gcc collection), is the page outdated?

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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2018 6:56:11 PM
To: Shahar Salzman
Cc: dev at 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.