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

[Baesken, Matthias]

Hi David, I found a RHEL  7.9   machine with an old glibc  :

ldd --version
ldd (GNU libc) 2.17

But the gcc on this machine  is 4.8.5  , probably too  old   to build OpenJDK there to see  if this change breaks something .

Any idea what I should test  on this old machine  regarding librt.so.1   ? 


Best regards, Matthias



>>>>
>>>> ( 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