[dpdk-dev] glibc 2.1

[Michael Quicquaro]

Right, thanks.  I had a little brain fart.


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Richardson, Bruce <
bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:

> 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
>