[Proposal] jlink plugin which replaces dynamic shared libraries

[Severin Gehwolf]

Hi Alan,

On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 16:55 +0100, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 15:15 +0000, Alan Bateman wrote:
> > > > You mail makes me wonder if it would be feasible to have a plugin that
> > > > does the stripping, maybe you've looked into that already?
> > > 
> > > We've considered it, but I haven't looked into it.
> > 
> > I think it's worth exploring, even if it means requiring the `strip` 
> > tool on the system.
> 
> If that's an option I'll look into it:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8214796

I've added a proof-of-concept for a strip-native-debug-symbols plugin
to the bug. It requires objcopy to be on the system on which jlink is
being run. Comments welcome.

Thanks,
Severin