If done right then this might help deal with the worrying incompatibility I noted before between the colour space values/range between OpenJDK and Oracle JDK:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/2d-dev/2012-May/002496.html Rgds Damon On 24 Dec 2012, at 09:52, Anthony Petrov wrote: > (CC'ing awt-dev@ and 2d-dev@) > > There's an RFE: > > 6565114: Allow using system copies of libjpeg, libpng and giflib for > splashscreen > http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6565114 > > I think that the scope of this RFE might be extended to support using system > copies of the libraries for the core JDK as well, not only for the > splashscreen. > > However, the RFE is currently closed as a "Future Project" because the > contributed patch contains some issues and the contributor was not available > for a while. See the review thread for details (a link is in the Description > of the bug). > > In any case, if you plan to integrate such a change to OpenJDK 8, it should > be reviewed here on the awt-dev@ and 2d-dev@ mailing lists. > > -- > best regards, > Anthony > > On 12/22/2012 11:15, Dmitry Samersoff wrote: >> Anthony, >> Should we do it for all system or at least, >> use bundled header for bundled library? >> -Dmitry >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: openjdk7 - use installed png and jpeg libraries >> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 22:24:02 -0500 >> From: Mikhail T. <mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com> >> To: gle...@freebsd.org >> CC: j...@freebsd.org >> Hello! >> The attached diff teaches java/openjdk7 to rely on the >> graphics/{png,jpeg} ports instead of compiling libpng and libjpeg from >> sources bundled by Oracle. >> This is especially important for jpeg, because currently build uses the >> already installed headers while compiling the bundled sources -- in case >> of any discrepancies there may be nasty problems. >> It is also just cleaner and affords the use of better optimized image >> libraries (such as assembly-optimized png and jpeg-turbo). >> Unfortunately, the port currently does not include check/regression-test >> target, so I my limited testing consisted of simply restarting vuze -- >> this worked, but I am not certain, it exercises the modified code. >> Please, take a look. Thank you! Yours, >> -mi >
