[ale] IBM java virtual machines

[jasonday at worldnet.att.net (Jason Day)]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:02:27AM -0700, Chris Ricker wrote:
> If you're on newish glibc, you don't want to use IBM's java. They use 
> private interfaces from older glibc, and it breaks / does weird stuff with 
> newer glibc. Sun's java, in constrast, uses the public API....

I believe the latest 1.4 JVM from Sun uses the public API, but earlier
releases do not.  I found this out the hard way when I upgraded my glibc
to debian/unstable, and my 1.3 JVM stopped working.
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