[PATCH] doc/linux_gsg: remove note referring to old pkg-config

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Tue Apr 8 19:19:02 CEST 2025


Latest DPDK releases no longer officially support RHEL 7 as a target
platform, so remove the note about pkg-config not working on those
systems.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
index 5a7d9e4a43..4c9d0c55c0 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
@@ -35,13 +35,6 @@ Compilation of the DPDK
     * For Ubuntu/Debian systems these can be installed using ``apt install build-essential``
     * For Alpine Linux, ``apk add alpine-sdk bsd-compat-headers``
 
-.. note::
-
-   pkg-config 0.27, supplied with RHEL-7,
-   does not process the Libs.private section correctly,
-   resulting in statically linked applications not being linked properly.
-   Use an updated version of ``pkg-config`` or ``pkgconf`` instead when building applications
-
 *   Python 3.6 or later.
 
 *   Meson (version 0.57+) and ninja
-- 
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