-Note: DPDK 16.04 is the minimum version of DPDK required for the dpdkstat
-plugin. This is to allow the plugin to take advantage of functions added to
-detect if the DPDK primary process is alive.
+Note: DPDK 16.04 is the minimum version and currently supported version of DPDK
+required for the dpdkstat plugin. This is to allow the plugin to take advantage
+of functions added to detect if the DPDK primary process is alive.
+
+Note: For Ubuntu, GCC 4.9 is the minimum version required to build collectd
+with DPDK. Ubuntu 14.04, for example, has GCC 4.8 by default and will require
+an upgrade:
+ $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
+ $ sudo apt-get update
+ $ sudo apt-get install gcc-4.9
+Alternatively, if you know that the platform that you wish to run collectd
+on supports the SSSE3 instruction set, you can run make as follows:
+ $ make -j CFLAGS+='-mssse3'