Yesterday I was happy about SUN…

Yesterday I was happy about SUN, because I saw an announcement that WTK 2.5.1 was released. And it includes a Linux version. The versions 2.3 and 2.5 were Windows only. The only available Linux version was 2.2. It worked nice but missed some features and had an annoying bug that signing of midlets were not possible. This bug was introduced in WTK 1.1 and fixed in WTK 2.5.

Today I download WTK 2.5.1 for Linux and installed it. I tried to run a first midlet and got this error message:

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /home/mkoch/local/WTK2.5.1/bin/sublime.so: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /home/mkoch/local/WTK2.5.1/bin/sublime.so)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1751)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1647)
        at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:770)
        at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1005)
        at com.sun.kvem.Sublime.(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:355)
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:308)
        at com.sun.kvem.Lime.createLime(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.kvem.KVMBridge.(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.kvem.KVMBridge.getBridge(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.kvem.midp.MIDP.run(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.kvem.environment.EmulatorInvoker.runEmulatorImpl(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.kvem.environment.EmulatorInvoker.main(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at com.sun.kvem.environment.JVM.main(Unknown Source)

I run a pure Debian Etch system as my desktop. So its not too old. I know there are releasons for etch not to include Glibc 2.4. Thats really okay. But I really wonder why builds against Glibc 2.4? What feature introduced in Glibc 2.4 is needed? I guess none.
They are just stupid and built against a new, shiny Glibc without caring about their users.

SUN: Please care about your users and release a new build against Glibc 2.3 soon. Not everyone will update his/her development machine just to be able to run WTK. When you release proprietary software, do it right. If you are not able to, make it open source, so the community can fix it.