On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:53:34 GMT, Alexey Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> @ThomasDevoogdt A PR isn't announced on the mailing list until it's _ready >>> for review_ which includes a valid JBS bug. >>> >>> I suggest you write an email to build-dev and client-libs-dev mailing lists >>> to propose this change and discuss it. I haven't found an existing issue in >>> JBS for not requiring X11 libraries in headless mode. I can submit one on >>> your behalf. >>> >>> If I have time, I'll test your patch locally and run it in the Oracle CI. >> >> All our build systems have X11. So a test build there doesn't prove much, >> and also it can easily regress. > >> > If I have time, I'll test your patch locally and run it in the Oracle CI. >> >> All our build systems have X11. So a test build there doesn't prove much, >> and also it can easily regress. > > This is why I'm going to use a VM which doesn't have X11 headers installed. > >> is that a reason to not merge this kind of code? > > I think it's a good change. Looking at the history at which @dholmes-ora > pointed, building headless JDK without X11 was supported, but it has become > broken again. I am fine with this (once @aivanov-jdk has done the test build). I am just pointing out that it has apparently regressed before so could regress again because this configuration is not part of our testing. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28310#issuecomment-3837497493
