FYI... Filed bug 6577886 for this change, will try and integrate it soon.
-kto Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
The gmk file currnetly allow usage of -z defs as LDFLAGS only for arches that are not PPC and are not 64-bit, without any comment on why this happens; counting that PPC Linux does not seem to be supported by OpenJDK anyway at the moment, -z defs works *mostly* fine on AMD64 Linux. Where mostly is referred to demos that links using gcc even when the source code is C++, using the LIBCXX variable to fix the link; this works fine, unless you use STATIC_CXX=false at build time to use runtime link to libstdc++. The attached patch removes the conditionals and fixes the libstdc++ build, allowing a safer build with -z defs enabled even on amd64.
