<AWT Dev> RFR(XXS): 8214007: Fix sun.awt.nativedebug on X11 platforms

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2018-11-16 19:08, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can I please have a review for the following trivial fix:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/webrevs/2018/8214007/
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8214007
Looks good to me.

(But this mess, oh this mess...)

/Magnus

>
> AWT supports some kind of native logging which can be enabled with
> "-Dsun.awt.nativedebug=true -Dawtdebug.ctrace=true".
>
> Unfortunately this doesn't work on X platforms any more because both,
> libawt and libawt_xawt end up with a copy of debug_trace.o. Among
> others, debug_trace.o contains the static variable
> GlobalTracingEnabled which denotes the tracing state. This obviously
> can't work if the final executable contains several instances of this
> variable.
>
> The fix is trivial. Remove "common/awt/debug" from the set of sources
> for libawt_xawt. libawt_xawt is linked against libawt (which already
> contains debug_trace.o) anyway, so this is no problem.
>
> Thank you and best regards,
> Volker