<AWT Dev> [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Use of obsolete png_check_sig function in splashscreen_png.c

[Anthony Petrov]

Hi Andrew,

On 06/07/2010 10:05 PM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> >From our side, I think it would be more useful to see in-tree support
>> for building against the system libpng as we never use the in-tree
>> version anyway.  Using the system version means we are better covered
>> for security updates and new versions of libpng don't first need to be
>> imported into the OpenJDK tree.

There's a CR 6565114 (Allow using system copies of libjpeg, libpng and 
giflib for splashscreen) for this task. However we've never seen a 
working version of the patch.

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best regards,
Anthony