[7u4] Request for phase 2 approval for CR 7150516 - [macosx] appletviewer shouldn't link against libX11 on the Mac

Edvard Wendelin edvard.wendelin at oracle.com
Wed Mar 7 01:51:21 PST 2012


I thought I had approved this already, but can't find the email so I'm 
giving it a second attempt :)

On 03/02/2012 04:48 PM, Anthony Petrov wrote:
> Bug: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=7150516
> Webrev: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~anthony/x-22-appletviewerLibX11-7150516.0/
> Review thread:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/macosx-port-dev/2012-March/003457.html 
>
> Reviewer: Mike Swingler (swingler)
>
> Rationale for inclusion in 7u4: X11 is an optional package on Mac OS 
> X. Since OpenJDK on the Mac uses Cocoa for GUI, the tools shouldn't 
> link against an unused GUI library. With this fix we eliminate the 
> dependency on the libX11 library.
>
> -- 
> best regards,
> Anthony
>



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