build 42 has come, and the JDK binaries no longer work on my system (32-bit Ubuntu dapper). java -version gives an instant crash with "floating point exception". Not very friendly.
I have always liked the fact that in the past Sun's JDK engineers put in great effort to ensure that JDK binaries work on a large variety of systems, generally by being built on some old unloved machine in the closet. I believe using Fedora 9 for official binaries is excessively aggressive. Like the JDK itself, operating systems (like Ubuntu "Long Term Support") tend to have about a 5-year support lifespan. Fedora 9 is just too young. I suggest using a build machine that, like Ubuntu dapper, has a glibc 2.3, which was the first release with NPTL. More specifically, I recommend glibc 2.3.6. Or more generally, try to support popular platforms for at least 5 years of life. Martin On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 20:31, Xiomara Jayasena <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > The official Release Engineering builds for JDK 7 will be moving from the > following OSs: > > *32 bit builds* > ========== > *From: *RH AS 2.1 to Fedora 9 > > *64 bit builds* > ========== > *From: *SUSE 8 to: Fedora 9 > > All required Makefile changes are in place, there are still other items > that are still being investigated for this OS upgrade to happen but wanted > to inform of the changes that are on the way. > *When:* It is expected that this change will happen by build 42. > > Please let me know if there are any questions. > > Thanks, > -Xiomara > >
