8320005: Allow loading of shared objects with .a extension on AIX

[suchismith1993]

Hi all,

This pull request contains a backport of commit e85355ad from the openjdk/jdk repository.

The commit being backported was authored by Suchismith Roy on 27 Feb 2024 and was reviewed by Amit Kumar, Thomas Stuefe, Joachim Kern and Martin Doerr.

Thanks!

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• JDK-8320005 needs maintainer approval

Issue

• JDK-8320005: Allow loading of shared objects with .a extension on AIX (Bug - P4 - Approved)

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[openjdk]

@suchismith1993 This change now passes all automated pre-integration checks.

After integration, the commit message for the final commit will be:

8320005: Allow loading of shared objects with .a extension on AIX

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At the time when this comment was updated there had been 18 new commits pushed to the master branch:

• 910eb0e: 8306714: Open source few Swing event and AbstractAction tests
• 1bbf93c: 8305943: Open source few AWT Focus related tests
• 8e46e37: 8305942: Open source several AWT Focus related tests
• fa8f02e: 8318727: Enable parallelism in vmTestbase/vm/gc/concurrent tests
• e922114: 8280546: Remove hard-coded 127.0.0.1 loopback address
• d27c9ba: 8328812: Update and move siphash license
• b05024a: 8310380: Handle problems in core-related tests on macOS when codesign tool does not work
• 0073602: 8297798: Timeout with DTLSOverDatagram test template
• 979daf5: 8264152: javax/net/ssl/DTLS/RespondToRetransmit.java timed out
• 5d4de36: 8286705: GCC 12 reports use-after-free potential bugs
• ... and 8 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk11u-dev/compare/f8225a424f763aaead44c98c2f51a9d3a009032e...master

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[openjdk]

This backport pull request has now been updated with issue from the original commit.

[openjdk]

⚠️ @suchismith1993 This change is now ready for you to apply for maintainer approval. This can be done directly in each associated issue or by using the /approval command.

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• 00: Full (888c71c1)

[suchismith1993]

/approval request This back port is required to handle dynamic libraries of AIX.

[openjdk]

@suchismith1993
8320005: The approval request has been created successfully.

[GoeLin]

Hi @suchismith1993, I removed your label, please first backport to 17.

[suchismith1993]

@GoeLin the backport for jdk17-udev is already there for review. For multiple line changes i think it went in for a review.
openjdk/jdk17u-dev#2332

[suchismith1993]

/approval request This back port is required to handle dynamic libraries of AIX.

[openjdk]

@suchismith1993
8320005: The approval request was already up to date.

[suchismith1993]

@GoeLin The backport for jdk17 is complete.

[suchismith1993]

/integrate

[openjdk]

@suchismith1993
Your change (at version 888c71c) is now ready to be sponsored by a Committer.

[TheRealMDoerr]

/sponsor

[openjdk]

Going to push as commit 6808c5c.
Since your change was applied there have been 18 commits pushed to the master branch:

• 910eb0e: 8306714: Open source few Swing event and AbstractAction tests
• 1bbf93c: 8305943: Open source few AWT Focus related tests
• 8e46e37: 8305942: Open source several AWT Focus related tests
• fa8f02e: 8318727: Enable parallelism in vmTestbase/vm/gc/concurrent tests
• e922114: 8280546: Remove hard-coded 127.0.0.1 loopback address
• d27c9ba: 8328812: Update and move siphash license
• b05024a: 8310380: Handle problems in core-related tests on macOS when codesign tool does not work
• 0073602: 8297798: Timeout with DTLSOverDatagram test template
• 979daf5: 8264152: javax/net/ssl/DTLS/RespondToRetransmit.java timed out
• 5d4de36: 8286705: GCC 12 reports use-after-free potential bugs
• ... and 8 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk11u-dev/compare/f8225a424f763aaead44c98c2f51a9d3a009032e...master

Your commit was automatically rebased without conflicts.

[openjdk]

@TheRealMDoerr @suchismith1993 Pushed as commit 6808c5c.

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