--- a/hotspot/make/lib/CompileJvm.gmk	Thu Oct 13 08:00:10 2016 -0700
+++ b/hotspot/make/lib/CompileJvm.gmk	Thu Oct 13 08:57:54 2016 -0700
@@ -176,6 +176,11 @@
 
 JVM_OPTIMIZATION ?= HIGHEST_JVM
 
+# Need to set JVM_STRIPFLAGS to the default value from SPEC since the STRIPFLAGS
+# parameter to SetupNativeCompilation allows an empty value to override the
+# default.
+JVM_STRIPFLAGS ?= $(STRIPFLAGS)
+
 ################################################################################
 # Now set up the actual compilation of the main hotspot native library
 
@@ -204,6 +209,7 @@
     OBJECT_DIR := $(JVM_OUTPUTDIR)/objs, \
     MAPFILE := $(JVM_MAPFILE), \
     USE_MAPFILE_FOR_SYMBOLS := true, \
+    STRIPFLAGS := $(JVM_STRIPFLAGS), \
     EMBED_MANIFEST := true, \
     RC_FLAGS := $(JVM_RCFLAGS), \
     VERSIONINFO_RESOURCE := $(HOTSPOT_TOPDIR)/src/os/windows/vm/version.rc, \