"useless" librt.so.1 dependency on Linux reported by dpkg-shlibdeps

Baesken, Matthias matthias.baesken at sap.com
Thu Sep 18 07:15:31 UTC 2025


>> 
>> ( seems some versions of  RHEL 7  / SLES 12  still had those old glibc 
>> versions)
>> 
>> Could we clean this up?
>> 
>> Or is there still some need  to  support this in jdk26  ?
>
>I always find it very difficult to determine when checks like these 
>become unnecessary. I think RHEL 7 with glibc 2.17 is the oldest Linux 
>release we currently support.
>
> Given I wrote the above in April 2021, I would hope we can now move on, 
> but again I don't know how to readily determine that.


I could create a removal PR and maybe you can test on the oldest platforms you want to support in release 26 ?

Best regards, Matthias



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