David,
Looking at the history of Defs-linux.gmk you can see that
(ALT_)OPENWIN_HOME was added for CR 2154143, in JDK6u10. This CR is also
marked as fixed in JDK7 b65 ( my guess would be as part of the forward
port of the client 6u10 stuff ). I'm not sure why the ALT_OPENWIN_HOME
support was never forward ported. I've cc'ed the relevant RE's, they
should be able to give a better reasoning.
-Chris.
On 21/10/2010 05:40, David Holmes wrote:
It used to be in JDK6 that you could use ALT_OPENWIN_HOME to override
the default OPENWIN_HOME settings in the makefiles for the j2se
workspace. But now in JDK7 this has gone and the value is hardwired in
Defs-linux.gmk:
override OPENWIN_HOME =/usr/X11R6/
Can someone tell me why this change was made? It seems to go against the
normal policy of using the ALT_* variables to customize settings.
This value needs to be overridden externally when doing cross-compilation.
Thanks,
David
