[yocto] eglibc and Oracle embedded JRE compatibility

[Khem Raj]

On Jul 29, 2013, at 11:20 AM, James Nuss <jamesnuss at nanometrics.ca> wrote:

> Does anybody know if eglibc is supported as a libc implementation for Oracle's embedded JRE?
> Since Yocto only supports eglibc rather than GNU glibc [1], I'd like to know if there are any issues running Oracle's embedded JRE on a Yocto build.

nothing to worry there. eglibc is no different then glibc, its a superset actually.

> 
> I can see that the meta-oracle-java [2] layer provides a recipe to install the i586 and x64 JRE binaries so this is a good sign that it is at least supported on those archs.
> However I would like to know if it will work specifically on ARM arch.

you need java8 IIRC for arm and meta-oracle-java is supporting java7 at present.


> 
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> [1] http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#usingpoky-components-bitbake
> [2] git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-oracle-java
> 
> Regards.
> James
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