On 2/15/2011 6:07 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
Yes, IcedTea uses system libraries for everything bar LCMS, where
local changes in OpenJDK mean we are still forced to use the in-tree
version. There hasn't been any success upstreaming these changes,
though I haven't looked at LCMS 2.x.
LittleCMS 1.x didn't provide the support necessary to pass JCK. So
we talked to
the LittleCMS maintainer and he added the necessary APIs in 2.0
JDK 7 has had LittleCMS 2.0 for almost 6 months now and that is
included without any code
modifications, so I think it should now be possible to use a system
library, although
we didn't do the work to actually enable that, so its built into a
JDK library which
has the littlecms code and the glue code. We need to provide the
ability to separate these.
When we pushed LCMS 2.0, I asked for a bug to be filed to remember
to do this work
but I can't find it in the database. I'll ask for that to be filed
if it wasn't already.
NB It didn't seem super-urgent since we pulled in LCMS 2.0
relatively soon after its release
we thought shipping distros weren't likely to have the library
upgrade anyway, but that's
probably changing.
-phil.
