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Re: Bug#183564: Acknowledgement (limewire: Can't get limewire to go with libc 2.3.1)



On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:45:01PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:54:37AM -0800, Cardenas wrote:
> > This sounds like a bug in glibc, as I believe that glibc 2.1.3 is
> > supposed to be backwards compatible with earlier versions, for non c++
> > code. 
> > 
> > I can update the dependency to use java 1.4, but its probably the case
> > that java 1.4 was compiled with gcc 3.2 and 1.3 wasn't. 
> > 
> > Can someone on the glibc team take a look at this and see if its an
> > upstream bug in glibc? 
> > 
> > Apparently, the symbol __libc_recvfrom had the version GLIBC_2.0 in
> > glibc 2.2.5 and in glibc 2.3.1 it has the version GLIBC_PRIVATE. 
> 
> The reason the new version is named GLIBC_PRIVATE should be pretty
> apparent.  Any use of a symbol which was later moved to GLIBC_PRIVATE
> is a bug in the application using it.  Java has to be (and has been)
> fixed.
> 

Great, thanks Daniel. Good to know we didn't just find another bug to
hold back glibc. 

I'll just update the dependency to rely on the 1.4 jre. 

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