Unexpected Mac X11 dependency

Mon Jan 13 09:24:56 UTC 2014

On 2014-01-10 18:17, David DeHaven wrote:
> The only surprise here is that configure is no longer looking for X11. Since X11 is slated for complete excision I don't *really* consider that a bug, or at the least an extremely low priority bug which puts it below JDK-8003900 anyways.

If we cannot build without X11, then it is a bug that configure does not 
require it. (Even if X11 is not really "used")

I remember I fixed a bunch of changes related to X11 and freetype on 
macosx last year, close to rampdown. It might very well be that one of 
them incorrectly disabled the X11 check on macosx, under the mistaken 
impression that X11 was not required any longer.

I opened https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8031568 for this.

I'm not sure it is worth fixing in JDK8, though.

/Magnus