[jdk11u-dev] RFR: 8220093: Change to GCC 8.2 for building on Linux at Oracle

[Goetz Lindenmaier]

On Sun, 5 Mar 2023 12:03:52 GMT, Christoph Langer <clanger at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This is a backport of [JDK-8220093](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8220093). The motivation for doing it is that configure output will then show same output as in higher releases for the used linker. E.g.
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> `configure: Using gcc linker version 2.36.1 [GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.36.1]`
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> vs
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> `configure: Using gcc linker version 8.5.0 [collect2 version 8.5.0]`
> 
> One can then deduct the version of binutils used.
> 
> I had to make a few modifications. In toolchain.m4, [JDK-8257679](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8257679) was already present so I had to make the hunk fit. The other adaptations are in jib-profiles.js which is not relevant to OpenJDK because it's used internally at Oracle only and some improvements to the devkit build scripts.

Why are the tests failing?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk11u-dev/pull/1792