RFR: 8311846: Resolve duplicate 'Thread' related symbols with JDK static linking

[Andrew Haley]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 20:21:21 GMT, Jiangli Zhou <jiangli at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > You could support one build by adding something like -DSUPPORTS_STATIC_LINK for both .so and .a builds for Google, then use that to protect the renaming.
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> Thanks, @coleenp. I think that could work for all different cases. I'll reflect that in this PR.
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> For longer term we probably still want to find a cleaner solution when the static support becomes more popular.

I think you should be able to use ld and objcopy to merge the .o files and hide all of the symbols you don't want to export.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17456#issuecomment-1902207127