[8u] RFA: 8196516: libfontmanager must be built with LDFLAGS allowing unresolved symbols

[Seán Coffey]

Approved. Please add noreg-build label to bug report.

regards,
Sean.


On 03/05/2018 18:24, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please approve this backport of JDK-8196516 which allows us to build
> with linker flags like "-Wl,-z,defs" a potential default in future
> Fedora versions. A fix for this is in JDK 11 and I've not heard of any
> issues. The JDK 8 change has been reviewed again as the JDK 11 patch
> didn't apply cleanly (post-path-unshuffeling).
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8196516
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-8196516/webrev.jdk8/
>
> RFR for JDK 8:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2018-May/021938.html
>
> RFR for JDK 11:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2018-April/021575.html
>
> Thanks,
> Severin