Solaris builds have always produced a lot of warnings when linking, like
this:
ld: fatal: symbol '__JvmOffsets' has differing types:
(file
/export/home/magnusi/hg/sandbox-cflags/build/solaris-sparcv9/hotspot/variant-server/libjvm/objs/JvmOffsets.o
type=OBJT; file
/export/home/magnusi/hg/sandbox-cflags/build/solaris-sparcv9/hotspot/variant-server/libjvm/objs/dtrace_jhelper.o
type=FUNC);
This is due to an unresolved bug in dtrace. This bug has been reported
on the dtrace team in 2014, but no solution have been coming forth. :-(
However, I just discovered that we can actually use elfedit to fix the
type of the fields that the linker is complaining about on
$(DTRACE_JHELPER_OBJ).
That will make the linker quiet.
Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8198859
WebRev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8198859-dtrace-warnings-workaround/webrev.01
/Magnus
