RFR: 8338768: Introduce runtime lookup to check for static builds [v2]

[David Holmes]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 22:14:40 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> As a preparation for Hermetic Java, we need to have a way to look up during runtime if we are using a statically linked library or not.
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>> This change will be the first step needed towards compiling the object files only once, and then link them into either dynamic or static libraries. (The only exception will be the linktype.c[pp] files, which needs to be compiled twice, once for the dynamic libraries and once for the static libraries.) Getting there will require further work though. 
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>> This is part of the changes that make up the draft PR https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/19478, which I have broken out.
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> Magnus Ihse Bursie has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Also update build to link properly

I understand the cost overhead experienced by any individual Java run may be lost in the noise, but it still impacts every single Java run just to save some time/resources for the handful of builders of statically linked VMs. I am not a fan.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20666#issuecomment-2309162391