The devkit used for building OracleJDK on linux needs to add libelf.
Here is the patch to the devkit creation makefiles to make that happen.
Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8145008
Patch:
diff --git a/make/devkit/Tools.gmk b/make/devkit/Tools.gmk
--- a/make/devkit/Tools.gmk
+++ b/make/devkit/Tools.gmk
@@ -82,7 +82,9 @@
libXi libXi-devel \
libXdmcp libXdmcp-devel \
libXau libXau-devel \
- libgcc
+ libgcc \
+ elfutils elfutils-devel \
+ elfutils-libelf elfutils-libelf-devel
ifeq ($(ARCH),x86_64)
/Erik
