----- Original Message ----- > On 03/08/2012 16:58, Andrew Hughes wrote: > > : It's what we've had for years, and was added orthogonally to 8 in: > > changeset: 5118:d45bc4307996 > user: michaelm > date: Tue Mar 06 20:34:38 2012 +0000 > summary: 7113349: Initial changeset for Macosx port to jdk > > though that version is broken (at least on GNU/Linux) without the > change > to defines.h I posted in my patch earlier this week. Right, that > change was for Mac and it didn't have the goal to enable it on > Linux. > > BTW: Looking at your patch then I suspect it will cause problems on > other platforms as it only sets ZLIB_LIBS in jdk_generic_profile.sh. > If folks aren't using this script to setup their environment then > I'm sure there will be a problem on Mac at least. I don't have time > to spend on it but I suspect Defs-macosx.gmk will need to be updated > to make it the default as it does now. >
I think that's what Sherman just hit. I thought the documented way to build was using jdk_generic_profile.sh? I can add a check to Defs-macosx.gmk. > > > If IPP is binary compatible, surely setting ZLIB_LIBS/ZLIB_CFLAGS > would > be sufficient? I don't know how different they are. I believe it is > binary compatible but I think Sherman is thinking a runtime knob > rather than a build-time option. > > -Alan. > -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07