Use of OPENWIN_HOME on linux

[Anthony Petrov]

Hi David,

According to the SCCS history, the ALT_OPENWIN_HOME has been introduced 
with CR 2154143 (which is a 6u10 SubCR of 6613871). The CR is marked as 
delivered to 7b65 as well, however the ALT_OPENWIN_HOME changes in 
make/common/shared/Defs-linux.gmk have been lost for some reason.

I think we should ask Andy (CC'ed) because he's the RE for that fix in 7.

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best regards,
Anthony

On 10/21/2010 8:40 AM, 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