Heads Up: JDK 7 Linux platforms moving to Fedora 9

[Andrew Haley]

Martin Buchholz wrote:
> build 42 has come, and the JDK binaries no longer work on my
> system (32-bit Ubuntu dapper).  java -version gives
> an instant crash with "floating point exception".
> Not very friendly.
> 
> I have always liked the fact that in the past Sun's JDK engineers
> put in great effort to ensure that JDK binaries work on
> a large variety of systems, generally by being built on
> some old unloved machine in the closet.
> 
> I believe using Fedora 9 for official binaries is
> excessively aggressive.

Does this failure to run on Ubuntu dapper have anything to do with
Fedora 9?

Andrew.