RFR: 8376684: Compile OpenJDK in headless mode without required X11 libraries

[Alexey Ivanov]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:32:46 GMT, Phil Race <prr at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > If I have time, I'll test your patch locally and run it in the Oracle CI.
> 
> All our build systems have X11. So a test build there doesn't prove much, and also it can easily regress.

This is why I'm going to use a VM which doesn't have X11 headers installed.

> is that a reason to not merge this kind of code?

I think it's a good change. Looking at the history at which @dholmes-ora pointed, building headless JDK without X11 was supported, but it has become broken again.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28310#issuecomment-3823612106