Question about BUILD_HEADLESS and HEADLESS

[Michael McMahon]

The stub library is headless/libmawt.so*. Right? It's being built on Mac 
OS as well, but currently being
put in a different location to the normal one. It also seems like it is 
not being used
because if you rename or delete it, there isn't any change in behavior, 
which sounds like a bug.

So, what exactly is the function of the stub library? Is it to allow 
some functions of awt to work
that don't require a real display?

In any case, I don't see why Mac should be different from Solaris or 
Linux in this respect.

- Michael.

* In 8 it has a different name, but it'll be built on Mac as well in 8.

On 14/02/12 17:27, Phil Race wrote:
> On windows headless is simply a state.
> But Solaris/Linux have "true" headless builds where there are headless 
> (stub) versions of UI libraries.
> And I think that headless is a valid JCK mode .. you can pass JCK in 
> headless
> on platforms that don't support UI. But I'd check the JCK guys on that 
> one,
> don't take my word for it.
>
> -phk.
>
> On 2/14/2012 6:49 AM, Michael McMahon wrote:
>> 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.
>