[dpdk-dev] DPDK 17.11.5 (LTS) on centos 7.6

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 09:14:08AM +0000, Bhutani, Sudhanshu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We want to compile DPDK Source code on centos 7.6 and dpdk 17.11.5 release has to be tested with openvswitch 2.9.3 on centos 7.6
> 
> 
> Our kernel version is 3.10.0-957.12.1.el7.x86_64
> 
> But, DPDK/SPEC/dpdk.spec file requires below packages for build to be successful:
>  BuildRequires: inkscape
>  BuildRequires: texlive-collection-latexextra
> 
> From where do we get these packages for centos, we have tried multiple links, but, nothing has been working for us.
> 
> Do we have 17.11.5 source rpm compatible with centos mock root ?
> Kindly suggest.
> 
This dependencies are only for building the DPDK documentation, they are
not required for building the main part of DPDK itself. Rather than using
an rpm package, can you just compile up DPDK yourself directly?

/Bruce