Question about BUILD_HEADLESS and HEADLESS

Michael McMahon michael.x.mcmahon at oracle.com
Tue Feb 14 14:49:42 UTC 2012


On 14/02/12 13:47, Fredrik Öhrström wrote:
> Is the use of HEADLESS in gcc.make (linux and bsd) an archaeological
> remnant and should be removed? (No source in the hotspot repo looks a
> the HEADLESS define.)
>
> Is there any reason to not build a headless version of awt? (ie modify
> BUILD_HEADLESS to not be defined.)
> It seeems like headless is not currently built on bsd/macosx/windows,
> but it is built on solaris and linux?
>
> //Fredrik
Fredrik,

It's being built on macosx as well.

- Michael.



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