RFR: JDK-8196998: Create devkit for Linux with gcc 7.3

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

Erik,

Is it possible that you could address https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8193016 at this time as well?

Apart from that, it looks good to me. 

/Magnus

> 8 feb. 2018 kl. 02:49 skrev Tim Bell <tim.bell at oracle.com>:
> 
> Erik:
> 
>> For oracle internal builds, we need to construct a portable devkit based
>> on GCC 7.3. This change contains the updated makefile logic used to
>> create this. The changes adds gdb and the gold linker. It also adds
>> dynamic downloading of the sysroot rpms. Several long standing bugs were
>> also fixed.
>> 
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8196998
>> 
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8196998/webrev.01/
> 
> 
> Looks good.
> 
> /Tim
>