On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Francesco Leone
<francesco.leone@ericsson.com> wrote:
Dear folks,
In our product we are going to introduce RHEL 6.5 and the new version of
GNU C Library, glibc 2.19.
My questions are:
1) Is glibc 2.19 compatible with RHEL 6.5 distribution?
2) Is glibc 2.19 compatible with java 1.7?
Looking forward an early reply
Francesco,
If your product is to run on a pristine RHEL 6.5, I believe that the
version of glibc you need to link against is glibc 2.12.
This means that if you're building a toolchain that is designed to run
binaries on RHEL 6.5, you need to make sure your toolchain sysroot
doesn't have a glibc version that exceeds the version on RHEL 6.5.
Otherwise; you'll get lots of runtime errors where the loader (dynamic
linker) can't find the proper versioned symbols because the system
glibc is older than what was linked against (for instance if your
sysroot had GLIBC 2.19).
I don't know about Java compatibility with glibc 2.19.