diff -r c156084add48 -r 3ef3f4174c2b common/autoconf/spec.gmk.in
--- a/common/autoconf/spec.gmk.in	Tue Jun 25 13:47:00 2013 -0700
+++ b/common/autoconf/spec.gmk.in	Tue Jul 02 17:38:10 2013 -0700
@@ -206,6 +206,7 @@
 JVM_VARIANT_KERNEL:=@JVM_VARIANT_KERNEL@
 JVM_VARIANT_ZERO:=@JVM_VARIANT_ZERO@
 JVM_VARIANT_ZEROSHARK:=@JVM_VARIANT_ZEROSHARK@
+JVM_VARIANT_CORE:=@JVM_VARIANT_CORE@
 
 # Universal binaries on macosx
 MACOSX_UNIVERSAL=@MACOSX_UNIVERSAL@
@@ -347,6 +348,11 @@
 # The linker can be gcc or ld on posix systems, or link.exe on windows systems.
 LD:=@FIXPATH@ @LD@
 
+# The linker on older SuSE distros (e.g. on SLES 10) complains with:
+# "Invalid version tag `SUNWprivate_1.1'. Only anonymous version tag is allowed in executable."
+# if feeded with a version script which contains named tags.
+USING_BROKEN_SUSE_LD:=@USING_BROKEN_SUSE_LD@
+
 # LDFLAGS used to link the jdk native libraries (C-code)
 LDFLAGS_JDKLIB:=@LDFLAGS_JDKLIB@
 LDFLAGS_JDKLIB_SUFFIX:=@LDFLAGS_JDKLIB_SUFFIX@