Glibc version

[Kelly O'Hair]

The key issue here is that jdk7 is no longer supported on many
of the older Linux releases, although someone might be able to
build OpenJDK's on older Linux systems, we now use Fedora 9 for
all our JDK7 builds.

Changing to Fedora 9 as our build platform, means that
the installer bundles may not install on older Linux systems, which
some may view as a good thing.
I don't know of any additional or recent changes to the bundling that
might impact Linux.

-kto

Xiomara Jayasena wrote:
> Alan Bateman wrote:
>> Avinash Lakshman wrote:
>>> Actually I just downloaded the binary install for 64 bit Linux. The 
>>> installer fails since I do not have GLBC versiion 2.4.
>>>
>>> A
>> Is this the self extracting .bin file from the download page [1]? This 
>> is a script that unpacks install.sfx that installs it into 
>> $PWD/jdk1.7.0. Is is there that it is failing? (sorry I can't verify 
>> it because I can't find a system with glibc 2.3).
>>
>> Xiomara - do you know if the installer build changed recently? I 
>> remember the JDK switched to Fedora 9 about 6 months ago but Avinash 
>> seems to be suggesting that the installation is failing on older 
>> systems with the "latest build".
> Since the upgrade to Fedora 9 having glibc 2.4 is a requirement.
> 
> I don't think there have been any changes in that area since the Fedora9 
> upgrade, I am copying Kelly in case he knows of anything I may have missed.
> 
> -Xiomara
> 
>>
>> -Alan.
>>
>> [1] http://download.java.net/jdk7/binaries/
>