Why does libdeploy link libstdc++ dynamically?

[Petteri Räty]

Petteri Räty kirjoitti:
> All other parts of the JDK link libstdc++ statically so it's weird that
> libdeploy (from that I understand java web start and plugin related
> stuff and as such still closed source) links it dynamically. This means
> that our packages need to depend on the the old version of libstdc++.
> 
> betelgeuse at pena ~/bin $ qlist sun-jdk-1.7 | xargs scanelf -n | grep libstdc
> ET_DYN libc.so.6,libstdc++.so.5,libm.so.6,libgcc_s.so.1
> /opt/sun-jdk-1.7.0.0_alpha13/jre/lib/i386/libdeploy.so
> 
> Regards,
> Petteri
> 

No-one answered so far so putting a query again. Many users are really
puzzled why 1.6 needs an old gcc installed when 1.5 didn't so it would
really help to solve this issue.

Regards,
Petteri

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