Glibc version

[Martin Buchholz]

Recent builds of openjdk 7 succeed on Ubuntu dapper,
which is based on glibc 2.3.6.

The only very recent change was a new dependency on
the ant-optional package in b73.

It's a tough call as to whether Sun's officially supported
binary builds should support glibc 2.3.6 or not.
I have been advocating that, since I love portability, and
features from later glibcs can be detected and used at
runtime, which means no downside for users.

Martin

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 00:44, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at sun.com> wrote:
> Avinash Lakshman wrote:
>>
>> Looks like the new installation depends on GLBC version 2.4. Is there any
>> place where I can find the latest download which is compatible with GLIBC
>> version 2.3?
>>
>> Thanks
>> A
>
> Which build are you using? The only dependency in the nio code on glibc 2.4
> was removed a few months ago (see
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6864319).
>
> Martin - have you seen any issues in recent builds?
>
> -Alan
>
>