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

[Christoph Langer]

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.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: b8ac68db
Author:    Christoph Langer <clanger at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk11u-dev/commit/b8ac68dbdb8a57a2db9f333500ae8b74fef192fb
Stats:     107 lines in 5 files changed: 82 ins; 7 del; 18 mod

8220093: Change to GCC 8.2 for building on Linux at Oracle

Reviewed-by: mbaesken
Backport-of: 290bfe5f4c912eae745e2a6a346d019ebe74b342

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