Glibc version

[Alan Bateman]

Martin Buchholz wrote:
> 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
>   
Thanks Martin. I think Avinash is using the binary releases and isn't 
building from source (but building from source is probably the only 
solution for this case).

-Alan.