Volker, Andrew, and Andrew, Thanks for the information. (In case it's useful to anyone in the future, I've updated my original stackoverflow question with everyone's answers.)
Thanks again, -John On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes <ahug...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 10:41 Wed 04 Jan , Andrew Haley wrote: >> On 01/04/2012 06:16 AM, John Von Seggern wrote: >> > Way back in a bug report for Java 1.4, I found this note: >> > >> > "We statically link the C++ runtime in JDK and enabled linker script >> > to hide symbols from libstdc++ and other internal symbols." >> > --http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4694590 >> > >> > Does OpenJDK continue to take this approach? >> >> Yes it does, but if you're using Linux be aware that most Linux >> distros patch this out, AFAIK. >> > > I'm not sure it even needs patching (though we do in IcedTea6). Setting > STATIC_CXX=false should be enough (it defaults to true). > >> Andrew. > > -- > Andrew :) > > Free Java Software Engineer > Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) > > PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) > Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
