[eclipse-dev] glibc 2.3 compatibility

[Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill writes:
 > I recently upgraded my os from RH7.3 to 8.0 with KDE 3.1.  After
 > upgrading, my eclipse installation (gtk version) didnt work.  I checked
 > some resources and found that my installation required glibc 2.2.  This
 > statement specifically referred to the gtk version, so I tried running
 > the motif version but it had the same problem.  
 > 
 > I thought maybe the dependency was a simple matter of the version the
 > binary download was built on, so I downloaded the source and built
 > eclipse locally.  The build went without hitch but when I ran the
 > executable I still got the same error.

I think you're picking up /usr/bin/java, rather than your installed
jre.  Be sure that your PATH points to the JRE's bin directory before
anything else.  Use the command "which java" to be sure.

Andrew.