[dpdk-dev] DPDK v16.07 Build Failure with Unsupported OS CentOS 6.8

[Shepard Siegel]

Follow-Up: We're all set, thanks John Miller; and my apologies for
incorrectly posting this to "dev" as opposed to "users" mailing list. -Shep


On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Shepard Siegel <
shepard.siegel at atomicrules.com> wrote:

> A client of ours shipped us an IBM x3650 with CentOS 6.8 installed. Our
> software team is off for the holidays. We use DPDK 16.07 and have had no
> issues with supported OSs. We understand that CentOS 6.8 is not supported
> for DPDK v16.07. Still, since IBM doesn't support CentOS 7 on the x3650, I
> figured I'd give it a try before risking a server OS change.
>
> We do this little dance to setup DPDK on our systems...
>
> git clone git://dpdk.org/dpdk
> cd dpdk
> git branch develop
> git checkout develop
> git reset --hard v16.07
> make config T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
> sed -ri 's,(PMD_PCAP=).*,\1y,' build/.config
> sed -ri 's/CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB=n/CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB=y/'
> build/.config
> sudo yum install libpcap-devel
> make
>
> Then the make fails some ways in as below...
>
> [labuser at bw-x3650 dpdk]$ git rev-parse HEAD
> 20e2b6eba13d9eb61b23ea75f09f2aa966fa6325
>
> [labuser at bw-x3650 dpdk]$ uname -r
> 2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.x86_64
>
> [labuser at bw-x3650 dpdk]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS release 6.8 (Final)
>
> [labuser at bw-x3650 dpdk]$ make
> == Build lib
> == Build lib/librte_compat
> == Build lib/librte_eal
> == Build lib/librte_eal/common
> == Build lib/librte_eal/linuxapp
> == Build lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal
>   LD librte_eal.so.2.1
>   INSTALL-LIB librte_eal.so.2.1
> == Build lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio
> (cat /dev/null;   echo kernel//home/labuser/projects/
> dpdk/build/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.ko;) >
> /home/labuser/projects/dpdk/build/build/lib/librte_eal/
> linuxapp/igb_uio/modules.order
>   Building modules, stage 2.
>   MODPOST 1 modules
> == Build lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni
>   CC [M]  /home/labuser/projects/dpdk/build/build/lib/librte_eal/
> linuxapp/kni/ixgbe_main.o
> In file included from /home/labuser/projects/dpdk/
> lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/ixgbe/ixgbe_osdep.h:41,
>                  from /home/labuser/projects/dpdk/
> lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/ixgbe/ixgbe_type.h:31,
>                  from /home/labuser/projects/dpdk/
> lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/ixgbe/ixgbe_dcb.h:32,
>                  from /home/labuser/projects/dpdk/
> lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/ixgbe/ixgbe.h:52,
>                  from /home/labuser/projects/dpdk/
> build/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ixgbe_main.c:56:
> /home/labuser/projects/dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/ixgbe/kcompat.h:
> In function ‘__kc_vlan_get_protocol’:
> /home/labuser/projects/dpdk/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/ixgbe/kcompat.h:2836:
> error: implicit declaration of function ‘vlan_tx_tag_present’
> make[8]: *** [/home/labuser/projects/dpdk/build/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ixgbe_main.o]
> Error 1
> make[7]: *** [_module_/home/labuser/projects/dpdk/build/build/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni]
> Error 2
> make[6]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
> make[5]: *** [rte_kni.ko] Error 2
> make[4]: *** [kni] Error 2
> make[3]: *** [linuxapp] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [librte_eal] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [lib] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Google suggested some hacks; but I'm out of my element in driver source.
> Is this a lost cause and I should try to get the server up to CentOS 7? Or
> is there a relatively simple (if untested) patch that we could try? Our
> objective here is to get through the DPDK and our net/ark PMD build process
> and see if we can run some of our most-basic packet ingress/egress ops on
> our Arkville IP in this system.
>
> Thanks in advance for any constructive feedback. Happy Holidays All. -Shep
>
> Shepard Siegel, CTO
> atomicrules.com
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