Integrated: 8368565: Adjust comment regarding dependency of libjvm.so to librt
Matthias Baesken
mbaesken at openjdk.org
Fri Sep 26 09:03:44 UTC 2025
On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:30:27 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org> wrote:
> We have a legacy dependency of libjvm to librt for the` clock_*` functions :
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/f993f90c86f89eb0c7f42ebecb45a68eae0bd9ea/make/autoconf/libraries.m4#L139
>
> But this is for very old systems with distros like RHEL 6 or SLES11 with glibc 2.16 or older, where the clock_ functions were still in librt ; but those ancient distros play no role any more for current JDK26.
> On the other hand, we now use the `timer_*` functions from librt e.g. in JFR and these are _really_ in librt so the comment should be adjusted.
This pull request has now been integrated.
Changeset: 7bfdb012
Author: Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org>
URL: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/7bfdb0120752d01da96c19e8037a6e909847d63c
Stats: 5 lines in 1 file changed: 0 ins; 4 del; 1 mod
8368565: Adjust comment regarding dependency of libjvm.so to librt
Reviewed-by: dholmes
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27473
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