<AWT Dev> RFR: 8221741 [AIX] Unexpected X11 bitmap fonts are loaded because of fontconfig.properties

[Volker Simonis]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 1:52 PM Ichiroh Takiguchi
<takiguc at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> Could you review the fix ?
>
> Bug:    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8221741
> Change: https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~itakiguchi/8221741/webrev.00/
>
> I'd like to obtain a sponsor for this issue.
>
> On AIX platform, fontconfig.properties file is used to pick up proper
> fonts.
> TrueType font settings are written by XLFD format on
> fontconfig.properties file.
>
> On current implementation, Java tries to load X11 bitmap fonts even if
> these are not used.
> This font load work is almost name as "xlsfonts -ll".
> It spends many CPU time and memories.
>
> Just font name format should be supported.
>
> To SAP representative,
> I have a question about copyright year on
> make/data/fontconfig/aix.fontconfig.properties.
> Please let me know how I should write down copyright year.
>

For example like here:

src/jdk.attach/aix/native/libattach/VirtualMachineImpl.c:

* Copyright (c) 2015, 2018, SAP SE. All rights reserved.


> Thanks,
> Ichiroh Takiguchi
> IBM Japan, Ltd.
>