jdk build using devkit on RHEL puts path to devkit into libsplashscreen

[Baesken, Matthias]

Hello,  by chance  we noticed  that a jdk build on RHEL Linux (ppc64le if that matters)   that uses a devkit   puts the  devkits folder  into the  libsplashscreen.so   binary .
See  those objdump and ldd   output  :


objdump -x ./lib/libsplashscreen.so  | grep PATH
  RUNPATH              /mydevkitsfolder/devkits/ppc64le-linux-gnu-to-ppc64le-linux-gnu-fedora27-gcc11.3.0/ppc64le-linux-gnu/sysroot/usr/lib64:$ORIGIN


ldd ./lib/libsplashscreen.so
ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `./lib/libsplashscreen.so'
      ……..
               libX11.so.6 => /mydevkitsfolder/devkits/ppc64le-linux-gnu-to-ppc64le-linux-gnu-fedora27-gcc11.3.0/ppc64le-linux-gnu/sysroot/usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 (0x00007fffa3920000)
               libXext.so.6 => /mydevkitsfolder/devkits/ppc64le-linux-gnu-to-ppc64le-linux-gnu-fedora27-gcc11.3.0/ppc64le-linux-gnu/sysroot/usr/lib64/libXext.so.6 (0x00007fffa38e0000)
       ………
               libz.so.1 => /mydevkitsfolder/devkits/ppc64le-linux-gnu-to-ppc64le-linux-gnu-fedora27-gcc11.3.0/ppc64le-linux-gnu/sysroot/usr/lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00007fffa36f0000)
               libc.so.6 => /lib64/power9/libc.so.6 (0x00007fffa34e0000)
               libjvm.so => not found
               libxcb.so.1 => /lib64/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007fffa3490000)
               /lib64/ld64.so.2 (0x00007fffa3be0000)
               libXau.so.6 => /lib64/libXau.so.6 (0x00007fffa3460000)


This looks not really desired to me ,   why should the devkit  be referenced there (we do not ship it usually)  ?
Looks like it is  coming in  via the  X_LIBS   setting , see

make/autoconf/lib-x11.m4


    # Now let autoconf do it's magic
    AC_PATH_X
    AC_PATH_XTRA

    # AC_PATH_XTRA creates X_LIBS and sometimes adds -R flags. When cross compiling
    # this doesn't make sense so we remove it.
    if test "x$COMPILE_TYPE" = xcross; then
      X_LIBS=`$ECHO $X_LIBS | $SED 's/-R \{0,1\}[[^ ]]*//g'`
    fi
 And X_LIBS   is used later  on Linux   in the   build of LIBSPLASHSCREEN .
Should we  filter it out  not only in the cross build but also when building with the devkit ?   Or is there some benefit in having  the devkit referenced ?

What is still unclear, why we do not see it when building on SUSE instead of RHEL  (maybe the linker behaves differently for some reason?)  .


Best regards, Matthias
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