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Re: [LI] Is it Possible ?



Atul Chitnis wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Arun Sharma wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 02:59:43PM +0530, vnair@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Can i somehow use JDK in RedHat 6.1 CD on RedHat 5.2. If yes then please tell me
> >
> > Typically no. You can run RH 5.x binaries on 6.1, but not the other way
> > around. Incompatible changes in glibc...
>
> You are right - I forgot that there were separate downloads for glibc 2.0
> and glibc 2.1 - the one I put on the CD was (naturally) glibc 2.1 since
> RHL 6.1 is glibc 2.1 based.
>
> Therefore the jdk on the PCQ CD will work with RHL 6.1 (what's on the CD)
> but not with RHL 5.2.
>
> Atul
>
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I was shocked to know that JDK required glib2.1
But somehow i havebeen running thwe JDK on 5.2 PCQ without any upghrade since.
please try it practically to confirm Atul.
Bye

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