>> The only surprise here is that configure is no longer looking for X11. Since >> X11 is slated for complete excision I don't *really* consider that a bug, or >> at the least an extremely low priority bug which puts it below JDK-8003900 >> anyways. > > If we cannot build without X11, then it is a bug that configure does not > require it. (Even if X11 is not really "used") > > I remember I fixed a bunch of changes related to X11 and freetype on macosx > last year, close to rampdown. It might very well be that one of them > incorrectly disabled the X11 check on macosx, under the mistaken impression > that X11 was not required any longer. > > I opened https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8031568 for this. > > I'm not sure it is worth fixing in JDK8, though.
Personally, I think it'd be better to complete the removal of the dependency. If you fix the build system, it will only have to be "unfixed" again. -DrD-
