Need Advice to see if we can ship OpenJDK/JRE with Commercial App

[Dan Tran]

I am extremely thankful for this redhat 5.5/openjdk 1.7 work.  looking
forward to see it happen.

Thanks again

-Dan

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes
<ahughes at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 20:38 Wed 26 Oct     , Dan Tran wrote:
>> If someone can point me to a prebuild of openjdk 1.7 for CentOS/Redhad
>> 5.5+, it is very much appreciated. So far I only found discussion for
>> Ferora, ubuntu, etc
>>
>
> Although 7 is in Gentoo and going into F16 (and probably the latest Ubuntu too),
> it won't appear in RHEL until there is at least a TCK available, as there is for 6.
>
> I also believe you'll have problems on RHEL/CentOS 5.x (see posts on
> distro-pkg-dev at openjdk.java.net) due to the age of some of the
> dependencies.  NIO relies on some newer system calls and libraries
> than are provided by RHEL 5.  For instance, there have been issues with
> building against glib.
>
> I'll try and have a look myself at getting RHEL5 + IcedTea 2.0 (which
> uses OpenJDK 7) working soon, but my RHEL5 box is pretty slow.  If I do,
> I could post the binaries somewhere.
>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -D
>>
>
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