xawt??
David DeHaven
david.dehaven at oracle.com
Thu May 16 08:36:18 PDT 2013
I found about four issues pertaining to this particular problem (including the one I'm working on). I think ideally, it should be a configure switch so if someone wants to build it then they can, but for production purposes it should be off.
I was hoping to fix jawt_md.h for 7u40 though...
-DrD-
> Hi, David.
> Yes there is a bug on it for jdk8. The reason why it is exists, is used for comparing of a rendering of aqua/xawt.
>
> On 16.05.2013 3:12, David DeHaven wrote:
>> Is there any particular reason xawt (and awt/X11) is being built on Mac?
>> Is anyone actually using it or is this just some vestige of the initial port that wasn't shut off?
>>
>> To me it just looks like a whole mass of dead code wasting space in the JRE.
>>
>> More importantly, it's getting in the way of fixing the Mac OS X jawt_md.h so it's actually usable...
>>
>> -DrD-
>>
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> --
> Best regards, Sergey.
>
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