Licensee is running into an issue with the new-style jdk8 build 111 on Linux 64bit.
On some SUSE Linux machines we have 32bit / 64 bit X11 libs installed in parallel at

/usr/X11R6/lib64
/usr/X11R6/lib

Unfortunately, the current new-style jdk8 make infrastructure does not support this correctly.
It chooses with

jdk/makefiles/CompileNativeLibraries.gmk
.....

#
# TODO replace with X_FLAGS / X_LIBS
# and add them to configure
#

OPENWIN_LIB := $(OPENWIN_HOME)/lib

the wrong (32bit) libs on our 64 bit Linux and then fails in the splashscreen build (linkage) because the wrong libs are choosen.

The configure settings

 --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib64

do not help here . This is because of
jdk/makefiles/CompileNativeLibraries.gmk

....

  else ifneq ($(OPENJDK_TARGET_OS), windows)
    LIBSPLASHSCREEN_LDFLAGS_SUFFIX += -L$(OPENWIN_LIB)$(OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU_ISADIR) -lX11 -lXext $(LIBM) -lpthread
  else # OPENJDK_TARGET_OS
    LIBSPLASHSCREEN_LDFLAGS_SUFFIX += kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib delayimp.lib -DELAYLOAD:user32.dll
  endif # OPENJDK_TARGET_OS

Customer believes this to be related to 8017568 and the part to fix this in the main open jdk 8
should be a part of that overall fix already done