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Martin Buchholz wrote: > 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 >> >>
