[yocto] eglibc and Oracle embedded JRE compatibility

[James Nuss]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Jul 29, 2013, at 11:20 AM, James Nuss <jamesnuss at nanometrics.ca> wrote:
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> Does anybody know if eglibc is supported as a libc implementation for
> Oracle's embedded JRE?
> Since Yocto only supports eglibc rather than GNU glibc [1], I'd like to
> know if there are any issues running Oracle's embedded JRE on a Yocto build.
>
>
> nothing to worry there. eglibc is no different then glibc, its a superset
> actually.
>
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> I can see that the meta-oracle-java [2] layer provides a recipe to install
> the i586 and x64 JRE binaries so this is a good sign that it is at least
> supported on those archs.
> However I would like to know if it will work specifically on ARM arch.
>
>
> you need java8 IIRC for arm and meta-oracle-java is supporting java7 at
> present.
>

Is there any particular reason why java8 is required for ARM?


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> [1]
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#usingpoky-components-bitbake
> [2] git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-oracle-java
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> Regards.
> James
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Regards,
James
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