RFR: 8303796: Optionally build fully statically linked JDK image

[Jiangli Zhou]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2023 19:40:34 GMT, Erik Joelsson <erikj at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I think it would be rather beneficial if this linking step could be performed by some variant of SetupNativeCompilation. We don't want to have to maintain logic for dealing with different platforms and linkers outside of the common files if it can be helped. SetupNativeCompilation would need to be tweaked to run without SRC and just a set of .a files.
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> The error about platform support should be handled in configure. We shouldn't be able to get here unless the configuration is expected to be supported.

All sounds good, thanks. I plan to withdraw this PR and extract the .a handling part into a new PR for now (as mentioned in response to @AlanBateman's comments). For the linking part, it would be good to have your close/direct involvement and collaboration in branch.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13709#discussion_r1180891458