On 8 June 2010 13:57, Anthony Petrov <anthony.pet...@sun.com> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On 06/07/2010 10:05 PM, Andrew John Hughes wrote: >>> >>> >From our side, I think it would be more useful to see in-tree support >>> for building against the system libpng as we never use the in-tree >>> version anyway. Using the system version means we are better covered >>> for security updates and new versions of libpng don't first need to be >>> imported into the OpenJDK tree. > > There's a CR 6565114 (Allow using system copies of libjpeg, libpng and > giflib for splashscreen) for this task. However we've never seen a working > version of the patch. >
I wasn't aware of this bug ID so thanks for that. I think the final solution needs to cover more than just splashscreen though, as there are other uses of libjpeg elsewhere. I don't know about this patch by the bug reporter. The one in IcedTea is pretty unusable upstream; it removes the in-tree libraries and forces system libraries. That's fine for distros, but for OpenJDK we don't want to disrupt the status quo. I've been meaning to look at this for a while, but just haven't got round to it. Maybe after the next IcedTea7 release... > -- > best regards, > Anthony > Thanks, -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
