[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] RFR: 8254024: Enhance native libs for AWT and Swing to work with GraalVM Native Image

[Phil Race]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:26:35 GMT, Bob Vandette <bobv at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> It is generally not expected for such a proposed change to pop up out of nowhere from someone who is a new contributor
>> without prior discussion and so forth.
>> I have no idea where this change is coming from, why we would want it,  and how it is expected to be supported and you
>> have provided zero explanation of any of it in the PR. I think you need to start by explaining the big picture, and
>> what you expect to do with this and how you are guaranteeing to support it and ensure it breaks NOTHING else. At all.
>> And then we could also use some technical details on what you perceive is needed and why this resolives it.
>> Also is this "everything" ?
>
>> It is generally not expected for such a proposed change to pop up out of nowhere from someone who is a new contributor
>> without prior discussion and so forth.
>> I have no idea where this change is coming from, why we would want it, and how it is expected to be supported and you
>> have provided zero explanation of any of it in the PR. I think you need to start by explaining the big picture, and
>> what you expect to do with this and how you are guaranteeing to support it and ensure it breaks NOTHING else. At all.
>> And then we could also use some technical details on what you perceive is needed and why this resolives it.
>> Also is this "everything" ?
> 
> I've been coaching @arodionov through this change.  This fix extends the work I did to allow a Java program to be
> created using all static libraries.  This PR fixes issues where there are multiply defined symbols in libawt, the
> headless and xawt toolkits when linked into a single executable.  It also solves the problem where dlsym doesn't work
> for non shared libraries.

Sorry I am not familiar with that work. Please provide more info.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/562