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
