openoffice 1.0.1 vs glibc cvs

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 03:31:53PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Robert,
>    Do you happen to have Blackdown JDK installed on your machine.
> I just checked with Kevin Hendricks about this and he believes
> we may be seeing a jdk failure due to __libc_wait being private
> to glibc now in 2.3.x. This symbol is needed by JDK 1.3.1 to 
> properly catch all of the sigchild signals for its fork/exec code.
> Kevin says if they call the regular wait in the signal handler, it
> is wrappered by the pthread library and becomes a pthread      
> cancellation point which causes us to drop sigchild on occaission.
> This symbol was being used to work around non-posix pthread signal
> handling in Linux. 

Our openoffice doesn't use Sun/IBM/Blackdown JDK in any way, just
gcj a little to cheat during building, then no Java at all.

	Jakub