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

[David Holmes]

On 18/09/2025 5:15 pm, Baesken, Matthias wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> ( 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 ?

I don't have access to such systems for testing.

David

> Best regards, Matthias
>