Improving OpenJDK for FreeBSD

Harald Eilertsen harald+jdklists at volse.no
Thu Feb 20 17:00:25 UTC 2025


On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 05:12:11PM +0100, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> On 2025-02-19 22:13, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>
> > A cursory glance through the PR suggested to me that there is as much
> > a case for the BSD port sharing a directory with Linux as there is
> > MacOS, given the number of cases I saw where it was added to Linux
> > #ifdefs.
>
> As Phil commented, this is likely mostly tied to X11. In fact, grouping OSes
> together as "unix" fits poorly with X11, since macOS is clearly a unix OS in
> most respects, but it does not use X11.

When I looked through this code myself, I was thinking it would perhaps
be better to have a HAS_X11 knob or something instead of trying to split
by OS. I'm not sure how/if you plan on supporting Wayland, and how this
would fit in with that.

Harald


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