On Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:18:17 +0100, Jan Buchmann wrote:
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>Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 18:21:26 +0000
>From: Rachel Greenham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Jan Buchmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: NEW JDK RELEASE!
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>Jan Buchmann wrote:
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>> Hi Ekkehard,
>>
>> I get the same error in SuSE 6.2. SuSE 6.2 has glibc2.1.1 iinstead of the supported
>glibc2.1.2 so maybe it's the same problem on your box (installation). If not, I would
>be interested to get some information about running JDK1.2.2 on a glibc2.1.1 system.
>
>This is pissing me off. This is why source distribution of applications are
>the only worthwhile ones, we can't be having with all these bloody binary
>incompatibilities because someone can't be arsed to type make.
Well, it is not quite that easy - there are actual bugs that prevent the JDK
from working correctly in some of the glibc versions and there are actual
incompatibilities (as in, different source needed) between some of the
versions. (things like minor differences in the way certain routines work
which have major impacts on the JVM...)
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