RFR: 8311661: Resolve duplicate symbol of StringTable::StringTable with JDK static linking [v2]

[Jiangli Zhou]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 22:38:10 GMT, Ioi Lam <iklam at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I found a way to hide the unwanted symbols in libjvm.a. This requires `ld --relocatable` and `objcopy --keep-global-symbols=...`. See the prototype here:
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> * https://github.com/iklam/tools/tree/main/misc/staticlib
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> So potentially we can do this completely in the makefiles, without adding namespaces to HotSpot.

Yeah, `objcopy` can be used to localize symbols. One of my colleague implemented symbol localizing for `libfreetype.a` and `libharfbuzz.a` for static linking issue. In some cases, user might want to link with a different version of the harfbuzz library than the version linked with the JDK code. Then multiple versions of the libraries could be linked together into the executable. That was a solution suggested by C++ experts and it worked.  Doing partial linking that produces a single `.o` file simplifies the work of `objcopy`. This is not a very portable solution though.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14808#issuecomment-1631611220