[yocto] eglibc and Oracle embedded JRE compatibility

[Burton, Ross]

On 29 July 2013 20:04, James Nuss <jamesnuss at nanometrics.ca> wrote:
>> 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.

Also the eglibc/glibc distinction will shortly be moot as the rift
that caused the fork in the first place has been "resolved" (to put it
politely) and many of the eglibc changes are being merged into glibc.

Ross