RFR: 8329131: Fold libjli_static back into libjli on AIX

[Christoph Langer]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:48:24 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

> @MBaesken @RealCLanger I will need your assistance for testing this on AIX.
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> I believe all refactorings I have done will keep the static jli build identical on AIX (apart from the name, of course). I have searched for jli references in the code base to verify that there is indeed no use of the dynamic jli on AIX. And finally I have temporarily changed the if to allow building of a static library on my mac, and it seems to work fine.
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> But in the end of the day it needs to be confirmed to work on AIX as well.
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> For your information: My plan for going forward is to improve handling of static vs dynamic libraries. This will allow us to remove the special checks for AIX when setting up dependencies for libjli from other places. So it is going to get even better in the future. :-)

Thanks @magicus for doing this. We'll run it through our testing and let you know the results tomorrow.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18497#issuecomment-2022045199