[8u] RFR: use gcc instead of ld to link genSocketOptionRegistry

[Alex Kashchenko]

Hi Edward,

On 02/24/2016 10:38 AM, Edward Nevill wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-02-20 at 22:14 +0000, Alex Kashchenko wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please review the following fix for aarch32-8u crosscompile builds:
>>
>> Webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~akasko/aarch32/jdk8u/jdk_genSocketOptionRegistry/webrev.00/
>>
>> Without this change jdk build fails on linking genSocketOptionRegistry.
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> Yes, I am familiar with this issue, I applied the same patch to the aarch64 jdk8 tree.
>
> This patch will of course drop out if it is ever merged upstream as it did for the aarch64 jdk9 tree.
>
> It would be really nice if someone had the time to fix this properly upstream.
>
> In the meantime we will just carry the patch locally.
>
> Can you please file a JBS issue.

Thanks for the review, I created an issue:

  - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8150529
  - webrev with a changeset: 
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~akasko/aarch32/jdk8u/jdk_genSocketOptionRegistry/webrev.02/

>
> Thanks,
> Ed.
>
>


-- 
-Alex