Re: Bug#183564: Acknowledgement (limewire: Can't get limewire to go with libc 2.3.1)
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.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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