On Fri, 2018-01-26 at 09:18 -0800, Phil Race wrote: > > On 01/26/2018 09:02 AM, Severin Gehwolf wrote: > > Any thoughts on the LDFLAGS filtering? Shouldn't this only be done on > > platforms that need it? solaris, linux, aix should already be fine > > without filtering. > > Only to say I really don't understand it :-) > But I think it is historical baggage. > > > Erik said :- > > I would assume that at some point there was a reason for not adding > -lawt_headless to libfontmanager > > There was a time (1.4) when ONLY Solaris had a separate headless library. > I alluded to this in https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8071710 > Headless for Linux was added in 1.5. > > So we may be dealing with some really old technical debt.
OK. Thanks, Erik, Phil! Cheers, Severin
