Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc and java problem

[Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:52:45AM -0000, Naresh Donti wrote:
> When glic is compiled with --enable-kernels=2.4.0, it enables a feature 
> called floating stacks to improve performance. Frankly I do not know what 
> floating stacks are, and would not really have cared, but for the fact that 
> IBM's jdk did not work on rc5 because it makes some wrong assumptions about 
> something related to the floating stacks. Sun's jdk1.3.1 is supposed to have 
> fixed this, but I really want to use IBM's JDK. I think this will be fixed 
> in the next few releases of the JDK, but in the mean time this does not 
> allow me to use gentoo as my primary desktop.

I just upgraded my system to use a new glibc without --enable-kernels=2.4.0 and
Sun's JDK is now working for me instead of segfaulting.  I have this glibc in
a .tbz2 package; it is compiled for the i686 architecture.  If you have a P6 core,
let me know and I'll send it to you.

I think we should include this kernel with 1.0_rc6, since Java compatibility is
important.

Best Regards,

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