RFR: JDK-8217723 Switch ld from bfd to gold on gcc toolchain

[Philip Race]

Category 3 has to deal with plenty of native code too ...

-phil

On 1/25/19, 9:15 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> In our own wrappers around configure, we've introduced the concept of
> a "developer mode".  But this thread suggests there are 3 populations
> of users invoking configure:
>
> 1. release engineers
> 2. hotspot developers
> 3. java library developers
>
> Category 1 doesn't care about edit-compile-debug cycle - they just
> want to build a reliable high-performance jdk without pitfalls.  This
> is the VAST MAJORITY of users, for whom we should design defaults in
> configure.
> Category 2 wants debug info and maybe incremental linking.  They might
> cheat and rebuild only libjvm.so and drop that one file into a
> previously built jdk as part of their development cycle.
> Category 3 doesn't care about native debug symbols at all