Does OpenJDK statically link the C++ runtime?

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 10:41 Wed 04 Jan     , Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 01/04/2012 06:16 AM, John Von Seggern wrote:
> > Way back in a bug report for Java 1.4, I found this note:
> > 
> > "We statically link the C++ runtime in JDK and enabled linker script
> > to hide symbols from libstdc++ and other internal symbols."
> > --http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4694590
> > 
> > Does OpenJDK continue to take this approach?
> 
> Yes it does, but if you're using Linux be aware that most Linux
> distros patch this out, AFAIK.
> 

I'm not sure it even needs patching (though we do in IcedTea6).  Setting
STATIC_CXX=false should be enough (it defaults to true).

> Andrew.

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