[yocto] eglibc and Oracle embedded JRE compatibility

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Mon Jul 29 11:42:34 PDT 2013


On 29 July 2013 19:20, James Nuss <jamesnuss at nanometrics.ca> wrote:
> 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.

eglibc is/was a fork of glibc so I'd be surprised if there were any
problems using JRE on eglibc.  Note that several major desktop
distributions (Debian, for example) have been using eglibc for quite
some time.

Ross



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