RFC: backport of JDK-8210863: Remove Xrandr include files from JDK sources

Andrew John Hughes gnu.andrew at redhat.com
Tue Jul 30 13:02:26 UTC 2019



On 30/07/2019 11:22, Mario Torre wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to backport the following bug into jdk8u-dev:
> 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8210863
> 
> The patch is trivial, apart from the usual path changes, I had to
> manually remove the internal Xrandr headers since the version do not
> match exactly:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~neugens/JDK-8210863/webrev.00/
> 
> The original patch is here:
> 
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/rev/7d99b410be1b
> 
> Cheers,
> Mario
> 

What is the motivation for this? JDK-8213944 would seem to be evidence
that the removal risks breakage and OpenJDK 8u is an older JDK which may
still need to be built on systems without Xrandr.
-- 
Andrew :)

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