Yes, we don't want unneeded dependencies declared as it both potentially
slows down the build (though this removal will not have any measurable
impact) as well as confuses humans trying to make sense of the makefiles.
This removal should be fine as we don't link to libawt_xawt on any
platform anymore. Linking is the only reason we have those dependencies.
/Erik
On 2018-04-13 10:20, Phil Race wrote:
I suppose this potentially helps the concurrency of the build ?
I can't think of why this would be a problem now there is no
compile-time linking
involved and it seems Linux was already fine without this,
but a jdk-submit would be prudent ..
-phil.
On 04/13/2018 09:22 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
Hi Erik,
thanks for looking at the patch and good catch! You're right that the
dependency can now be removed. Here's the new webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/webrevs/2018/8201524.v1
Regards,
Volker
On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 6:00 PM, Erik Joelsson
<erik.joels...@oracle.com> wrote:
Hello Volker,
The change looks good, but now that we no longer link against
libawt_headless, we should also remove the make dependency a few
lines down.
(Should have been done already for Solaris.)
/Erik
On 2018-04-13 06:28, Volker Simonis wrote:
Hi,
can I please have a review for this tiny AIX cleanup:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/webrevs/2018/8201524/
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8201524
This is a follow up change of JDK-8196516 which discovered that on AIX
libfontmanager is always linked against libawt_headless at build time.
If we are running in a headfull environment, libfontmanager will
dynamically load libawt_xawt which is not good because libawt_headless
and libawt_xawt define some common symbols. If we're running in a
headless environment, libawt_headless may be loaded a second time (at
least on Linux/Solaris) which isn't good either.
Both of these scenarios haven't caused any problems on AIX yet, but I
think it's good to cleanup the AIX implementation as well and don't
link libfontmanager against libawt_headless anymore. In order to
achieve this, we have to allow unresolved symbols during the linking
of libfontmanager. This can be easily achieved by adding the additions
linker flag "-Wl$(COMMA)-berok" through LDFLAGS_aix. This works fine
for AIX because options which come later on the command line take
precedence
over earlier ones.
Thank you and best regards,
Volker
