<AWT Dev> [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] [PATCH FOR APPROVAL]: Fix broken build on newer versions of X11 (libXext >= 1.1.0)

[Jim Graham]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> There's http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-June/001242.html
> but I avoided posting this in the original mail because it seems to
> have changed again between that commit and the final release,
> presumably due to compatibility issues (XShm.h is back and it's now
> shmproto.h as seen in the patch).  I've built the repo with this patch
> here with the old version, and others have built it with the new
> version; it does work for both.  The same patch is already in Gentoo's
> ebuild and IcedTea, and a similar patch has been used for the Fedora
> rawhide RPMs for some time.  It would be good to get it upstream as
> well.

At first I was going to ask how the existing #include succeeds when the 
link says that Xshm.h is going away, but now I see that you said they 
brought it back.  What is it now?  Just an empty include to prevent 
#include failures?  (I don't see how that works since the build will 
break anyway as soon as a missing constant is referenced...?)

(It seems odd that they bring it back to [not really] avoid build 
breakages, but then don't just have it include the new split files to 
finish the "backwards compatibility" story...?)

			...jim