[dpdk-dev] glibc 2.1

[Richardson, Bruce]

The Intel DPDK should work fine on RHEL 6.4. There should be no need to update your glibc, since this is subversion 12 (> 7), rather than 1.2.
Regards,
/Bruce 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Michael Quicquaro
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 6:26 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] glibc 2.1
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have built dpdk (and pktgen-dpdk) on a couple RHEL 6.4 servers.  This
> distribution comes with glibc 2.12
> 
> I have read that glibc 2.7 is needed for coreset() functionality.  My testing,
> at the moment, only requires one cpu core.
> 
> I assume that upgrading to glibc 2.7 would probably break many of the
> executables on this system.
> 
> The build seemed to work fine.
> 
> Do you think that there are any adverse effects of using a dpdk that was
> built with glibc 2.1 in this case?
> 
> - Mike