[8u] RFR: 8196516: libfontmanager must be built with LDFLAGS allowing unresolved symbols

Erik Joelsson erik.joelsson at oracle.com
Thu May 3 17:06:53 UTC 2018


Looks good.

/Erik


On 2018-05-03 04:33, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could I please get a review of this change for JDK 8u? We are seing
> build failures due to unresolved symbols when building
> libfontmanager.so. The build flag to trigger this is to configure with:
>
> --with-extra-ldflags="-Wl,-z,defs"
>
> Attempting a build of JDK 8 with this fails. This has been fixed in JDK
> 11 and hasn't shown any issues so far. Due to the change in the build
> system the JDK 11 patch does not apply cleanly after path unshuffeling
> (different context it seems). Hence, asking here for a review before
> asking for JDK 8 backport approval.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8196516
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-8196516/webrev.jdk8/
>
> Review thread for JDK 11:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2018-April/021575.html
>
> Thanks,
> Severin




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