Heads up: planned Harfbuzz update in jdk11u-dev

[Andrew Haley]

On 1/18/22 09:26, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Let's investigate which targets will be adversely affected by this
> change, and make a decision based on what we find. I have been
> wondering for some time about building Vanillas with a more recent
> version of GCC but still using the old libc for compatibility (as
> Oracle do AFAIAA) and maybe this is the time to put that idea into
> effect.

I'm looking at https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Build/Supported+Build+Platforms
and I see that Oracle used GCC 7.3.0 on OEL 7.1 but using sysroot (headers and libs)
from 6.4.

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