[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] RFR: JDK-8196218: [linux] libfontmanager should be linked against headless awt library

[Erik Joelsson]

Interesting, so this was probably just Kelly trying to get things to build.

/Erik


On 2018-01-26 09:09, Phil Race wrote:
> And the SCCS history which pre-dates mercurial says it was added by 
> Kelly O'Hair
> who was the JDK build lead at the time .. so not added by 2D.
>
> D 1.86.1.1 07/03/21 18:00:55 ohair 187 185      00007/00000/00163
> 6537329: Move JdbcOdbc (JDBC-ODBC Bridge) to closed
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6537329
>
> There's no (or insufficient for me) clue as to why that change touched 
> 2D/AWTmakefiles.
>
> Perhaps something to do with this comment :
> > the Makefile will be fixed to use the same Linux fake libraries 
> trick on all Unix platforms,
>
> -phil.
>
> On 01/26/2018 08:54 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Testing: Build fails with configure option
>>>>           --with-extra-ldflags="-Xlinker -z -Xlinker defs"
>>>>           prior the fix. Succeeds after.
>>>>
>>>> Question for 2d-folks/build-dev folks:
>>> I don't know about this, build folks probably know.
>>>
>> This is from way ahead of my time. The filtering is simply the 
>> build-infra way of achieving the same thing as in the old build 
>> system. Here is the corresponding code in jdk7:
>>
>> $ hg annotate make/sun/font/Makefile
>> ...
>>    0: #
>>    0: # Created without -z defs on linux
>>    0: #
>>    0: ifeq ($(PLATFORM), linux)
>>    0:   LDFLAGS_DEFS_OPTION =
>>    0: endif 
>