Use of OPENWIN_HOME on linux

[Chris Hegarty]

David,

Looking at the history of Defs-linux.gmk you can see that 
(ALT_)OPENWIN_HOME was added for CR 2154143, in JDK6u10. This CR is also 
marked as fixed in JDK7 b65 ( my guess would be as part of the forward 
port of the client 6u10 stuff ). I'm not sure why the ALT_OPENWIN_HOME 
support was never forward ported. I've cc'ed the relevant RE's, they 
should be able to give a better reasoning.

-Chris.

On 21/10/2010 05:40, David Holmes wrote:
> It used to be in JDK6 that you could use ALT_OPENWIN_HOME to override
> the default OPENWIN_HOME settings in the makefiles for the j2se
> workspace. But now in JDK7 this has gone and the value is hardwired in
> Defs-linux.gmk:
>
> override OPENWIN_HOME =/usr/X11R6/
>
> Can someone tell me why this change was made? It seems to go against the
> normal policy of using the ALT_* variables to customize settings.
>
> This value needs to be overridden externally when doing cross-compilation.
>
> Thanks,
> David