After Phil Race's suggestion, I'm forwarding this to core-libs, as it might be more appropriate. Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 07:39:39 +0200 From: Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <flameeyes@gmail.com> To: build-dev@openjdk.java.net Subject: [PATCH] Allow usage of external zlib copy Most distributions have policies about using external copies of libraries whenever possible. OpenJDK ships with a series of libraries that are usually available on a system, like zlib and jpeg, thus breaking such a policy. The attached patch tries to correct part of this by letting use of external zlib copy when passing EXTERNAL_ZLIB=true at the make process. I'm also gonna work on a similar patch to use external jpeg library (that will likely depend on this one because of some of the files touched being the same). -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/