Java 1.3.1, NPTL kernel

[Michael Kearey]

Hugh McGuirk wrote:
> I am evaluating Fedora, and i read somewhere the NPTL kernel implemented
> by Redhat was incompatible with Sun's JDK earlier than 1.4.2.
> 
> I plan to use Fedora for development, but we have projects that must
> work with JDK 1.3.1
> 
> I have been getting strange compile errors:
> "compiler message file broken:
> key=compiler.err.sun.io.MalformedInputException arguments=null, null,
> null, null, null, null, null
> 
> I found a fix to this was simply to change the locale:
> In /etc/sysconfig/i18n ,the line 
> LANG="en_GB.UTF8"
> to:
> LANG="en_GB."
> 
> Will the above cause any other issues?
> 
> What other incompatibilities should i expect between Java1.3.1 and a
> NPTL kernel?
> 
> Has anyone else come across problems with the JDK 1.3.1 or otherwise
> compiling/running under Fedora?

Have a look in release notes (At fedora.redhat.com, there is mention 
of how to cope with old threading libs etc. Look for LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 
or something. That may be needed too.

I am a little suprised 1.3 worked at all on the NPTL kernel..

Cheers,
Michael