Hi David, I found a RHEL 7.9 machine with an old glibc : ldd --version ldd (GNU libc) 2.17
But the gcc on this machine is 4.8.5 , probably too old to build OpenJDK there to see if this change breaks something . Any idea what I should test on this old machine regarding librt.so.1 ? Best regards, Matthias >>>> >>>> ( seems some versions of RHEL 7 / SLES 12 still had those old glibc >>>> versions) >>>> >>>> Could we clean this up? >>>> >>>> Or is there still some need to support this in jdk26 ? >>> >>> I always find it very difficult to determine when checks like these >>> become unnecessary. I think RHEL 7 with glibc 2.17 is the oldest Linux >>> release we currently support. >>> >>> Given I wrote the above in April 2021, I would hope we can now move on, >>> but again I don't know how to readily determine that. >> >> >> I could create a removal PR and maybe you can test on the oldest platforms >> you want to support in release 26 ? > >I don't have access to such systems for testing. > >David
