"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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