From: Harry van Haaren Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 13:40:03 +0000 (+0000) Subject: doc: add gcc-multilib as linux package hint X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~7551 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8f6f24342281f59de0df7bd976a32f714d39b9a9;p=dpdk.git doc: add gcc-multilib as linux package hint 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 Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren Acked-by: Daniel Mrzyglod Acked-by: John McNamara --- diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst index a20a4074da..959709e568 100644 --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst @@ -66,8 +66,9 @@ 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)