On 05/07/2012 17:11, Andrew Hughes wrote:
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Is there a way to get the native zlib libraries to get picked up
instead of the hardcoded version within the JVM?
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Azeem Jiva
@javawithjiva
We have this in IcedTea (USE_SYSTEM_ZLIB=true) and intend to get it
upstream.
However, I don't see how this is related to HotSpot, as the zlib usage
is in the jdk tree.
I think we need to (re)start the discussion on core-libs-dev with a view
to eliminating the patches that the JDK has to zlib, see:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/file/tip/src/share/native/java/util/zip/zlib-1.2.5/patches/ChangeLog_java
One of these changes relates to the zip64 support and I believe there
are corner cases when inflating or deflating >2GB that won't work if
using the system zlib. Sherman will likely recall the details. Given
that the new build already supports using the system zlib (at least on
Linux) then it would be good to sort this out so that it just works.
-Alan
