<AWT Dev> RFR: JDK-8198844 Clean up GensrcX11Wrappers

[Erik Joelsson]

Hello,

In xlibtypes.txt comment, should it be sizes-64.txt?

Generating both 32 and 64 seems a bit outdated at this point. Surely 
this is a remnant of bundling 64 and 32 bit together on Solaris in the 
past? Perhaps someone in 2d can answer this? Would be nice to be able to 
clean up that part as well if possible.

Otherwise good.

/Erik

On 2018-02-28 12:12, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> My hunt on technical debt continues. This time my aim has been on the 
> sorry mess known as GensrcX11Wrappers.
>
> I've disentangled it into two functions, one simple gensrc part that 
> is actually run during the build, and which involves just a simple 
> java tool and some pre-calculated data files, and a separate step for 
> updating those pre-calculated data files. This step is now run using 
> "make update-x11wrappers". It involves compiling a native binary, and 
> running it on the target platform, so just as before, this assumes 
> that you are not cross-compiling.
>
> I'm not sure what role the "verification" step we had before ever 
> played. For all the years we've been "verifying" this, we've detected 
> no differences. In fact, as far as I understand, what we *really* 
> would need to verify against, is the X11 libraries on the runtime 
> system, i.e. where the users executes the JRE. But then again, we can 
> assume that this matches, just as anyone compiling with header files 
> on one place can assume that they can use the libraries elsewhere. The 
> only reason, as I see it, to keep the generation in the makefiles at 
> all, is to document how the files were generated, and to be ready for 
> the need to update the files if the list of datatypes in xlibtypes.txt 
> changes.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8198844
> WebRev: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8198844-clean-up-GensrcX11Wrappers/webrev.01
>
> /Magnus
>