eal_memory.c:56:18: fatal error: numa.h: No such file or directory

Question

When I execute make from the quick start instruction for DPDK, I get the following error:

eal_memory.c:56:18: fatal error: numa.h: No such file or directory

The error comes out even when libnuma is installed already:

>sudo yum install numactl-libs.x86_64
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Package numactl-libs-2.0.9-6.el7_2.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

I'm using CenOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core).

How do I fix this problem?

Answer 1

numa.h is also part of libnuma package.

Please install libnuma package:

CentOS 6.9: yum install libnuma-devel

Ubuntu: apt-get install libnuma-dev

Looks like on CentOS 7 docker container libnuma-devel is not available. In that case try yum install numactl-devel

Answer 2

Try to install numactl-devel:

sudo yum install numactl-devel