[yocto] eglibc and Oracle embedded JRE compatibility

[James Nuss]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

It's encouraging to know that major distributions are using eglibc, since
their is a fair assumption that they should also support major JRE's as
well - thanks for pointing this out.


>
> Ross
>
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