<AWT Dev> MAWT vs XAWT
Oleg Sukhodolsky
Oleg.Sukhodolsky at Sun.COM
Thu May 15 07:08:58 PDT 2008
Yuri,
could you, please, file a CR to remove this check.
Thanks, Oleg.
Yuri Nesterenko wrote:
> Phil Race wrote:
>> Oleg Sukhodolsky wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ok, good to know. I wonder why OpenMotif or lesstif is required to
>>>> build
>>>> OpenJDK then?
>>>
>>> I think we need headers to get some constants, but perhaps we forgot
>>> to remove the check ;) We will look at this.
>>
>> Yes, its just headers for constants for window manager interoperability.
>> I believe its possible to do away with this but it was more work/risk
>> than Yuri had time for
>> when he was removing the main motif build dependencies from openjdk.
>>
>> -phil.
>
> AFAIK Motif headers are not necessary any more for jdk7 (see 6463431),
> and there should be no reference in building documents or scripts to
> anything Motif. There is plenty of dead spaghetty left in the code,
> though, mostly harmless.
>
> Thanks,
> -yan
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