When compiling for i686 targets compilation could fail
if the 32bit libc6-dev package is not installed. The
gcc-multilib packages is a meta-package that will pull
in the necessary dependencies, making setup easier for
beginners.
Reported-by: Weichun Chen <weichunx.chen at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren at intel.com>
---
doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
index a20a407..7f7e866 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
@@ -66,8 +66,7 @@ Compilation of the DPDK
default and affect performance (``-fstack-protector``, for example).
Please refer to the documentation
of your distribution and to ``gcc -dumpspecs``.
-* libc headers (glibc-devel.i686 / libc6-dev-i386; glibc-devel.x86_64 for
64-bit compilation on Intel
- architecture; glibc-devel.ppc64 for 64 bit IBM Power architecture;)
+* libc headers, often packaged as ``gcc-multilib`` (``glibc-devel.i686`` /
``libc6-dev-i386``; ``glibc-devel.x86_64`` / ``libc6-dev`` for 64-bit
compilation on Intel architecture; ``glibc-devel.ppc64`` for 64 bit IBM Power
architecture;)
* Linux kernel headers or sources required to build kernel modules. (kernel
- devel.x86_64;
kernel - devel.ppc64)
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