Fastpass is a Datacenter network framework proposed by Jonathan Perry, et al.. Its authors published its codes, however, I encountered some issues while installing it on Ubuntu 16.04. Here is Long’s vagrant VM for building Fastpass.

• Issue 1: gcc version issue

  • error:

    include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:86:30: fatal error: linux/compiler-gcc5.h: No such file or directory
    

  • cause: the kernel version of my Ubuntu (i.e., Ubuntu 16.04) is higher than the kernel version used by fastpass (i.e., v3.10.25).

  • solution: before make -j22 adding

    echo "#include <linux/compiler-gcc4.h>" > include/linux/compiler-gcc5.h
    

  • source: compile-a-linux-2-6-kernel-module-with-newer-compiler

• Issue 2: Berkeley DB issue

  • error:

    E: Unable to locate package libdb6.0-dev
    E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libdb6.0-dev'
    E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libdb6.0-dev'
    

  • cause: it seems there is no package libdb6.0-dev for Ubuntu 16.04 (I only found libdb6.0-dev for Ubuntu 14.04)
  • solution: replace libdb6.0-dev with libdb-dev (if you still see the similar error, then you might need add the source to your /etc/apt/source/lsit )