> > > My personal view is that we should link to libz where possible (already > so on Mac, but not the default on Linux or Solaris). Clearly we still have > to allow for platforms where it doesn't exist (Windows only I think) and in > that case we should periodically update it (as we did in both JDK 7 and JDK > 8). It may be time to look at upgrading it again (for JDK 9 as this is not > something to touch in the end-game of a release). > > I can see arguments for both sides (linking statically vs using the system zlib) and I'm leaning toward the former. Errors or incompatibilities in the zlib could be really harmful, and I rather use the zlib I ran all my tests with instead of the system zlib which may or may not be out of date or show regressions.
So, if I were to recode this fix again to not change the zlib - which is not so trivial - do you think there is a chance that this fix gets examined and maybe pulled into the OpenJDK? ..Thomas
