[Bro] Bro Roadmap and Linux Distro Compatibility

[Gary Faulkner]

Are we just talking C++11 support, which RHEL 7 supports (current git 
master compiles as long as you install CAF), or something where I'll 
want to jump to something with a 4.x kernel and C++14 support, say 
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Fedora etc? RHEL 7 appears to have CMake 2.8.11 and 
GCC 4.8.5. The latter supports C++11, but I don't believe it supports 
anything newer. At one point I thought I saw talk of wanting to move to 
C++14 on the dev list.

~Gary

On 5/31/16 11:52 AM, Slagell, Adam J wrote:
> Yes, you should for Bro 2.5. I suppose you will be able to disable broker at config time and maybe still compile, but the RHEL 6 compiler doesn’t support all of Bro’s code or its dependencies.
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>> On May 31, 2016, at 11:48 AM, Gary Faulkner <gfaulkner.nsm at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'm about to build a couple more worker nodes and it got me wondering
>> whether I should migrate to a newer Linux distro. My current cluster is
>> running on RHEL 6.x, but over the past couple years I've noticed changes
>> to Bro that temporarily required installing newer versions of CMake than
>> RHEL 6.x originally supported. RHEL 6.x eventually broke the mold of not
>> breaking binary compatibility around RHEL 6.6 and moved to a newer CMake
>> which made the RHEL packaged CMake Bro compatible once again. As such
>> I'm wondering if there is anything in the pipeline that would break
>> compatibility a properly updated RHEL 6.x/Centos6.x. I'd rather not
>> maintain separate versions of libraries to build Bro if possible. We're
>> technically a RHEL shop, so I'd probably be looking at RHEL7.x, but I
>> could look at another distro that is more aggressive with running newer
>> kernels and software libraries if necessary. Thoughts?
>>
>> ~Gary
>>
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