<AWT Dev> [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Fwd: openjdk7 - use installed png and jpeg libraries

[Phil Race]

libpng and giflib are used solely by splashscreen so I don't think that 
matters so much.
Distro builds can do this fairly safely since they link against a known 
quantity.
Perhaps not so much the Oracle JDK which builds on one distro but is run 
on many ..

But jpeg might matter.
Oracle JDK does not/cannot use the system libjpeg for all purposes
because of some necessary proprietary code in the version used by ImageIO.
So a change would have to be confined to the OpenJDK and even if done
solely for splashscreen in Oracle JDK would mean two libjpegs being 
loaded ..

BTW I responded on the thread you cite and mentioned this
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/2d-dev/2012-May/002509.html
I do not believe that switching alone would fix anything here.

I'd prefer at this point to defer such a change for jpeg to early in JDK 9.

-phil.

On 12/24/2012 2:10 AM, Damon Hart-Davis wrote:
> If done right then this might help deal with the worrying incompatibility I noted before between the colour space values/range between OpenJDK and Oracle JDK:
>
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/2d-dev/2012-May/002496.html
>
> Rgds
>
> Damon
>
>
> On 24 Dec 2012, at 09:52, Anthony Petrov wrote:
>
>> (CC'ing awt-dev@ and 2d-dev@)
>>
>> There's an RFE:
>>
>> 6565114: Allow using system copies of libjpeg, libpng and giflib for splashscreen
>> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6565114
>>
>> I think that the scope of this RFE might be extended to support using system copies of the libraries for the core JDK as well, not only for the splashscreen.
>>
>> However, the RFE is currently closed as a "Future Project" because the contributed patch contains some issues and the contributor was not available for a while. See the review thread for details (a link is in the Description of the bug).
>>
>> In any case, if you plan to integrate such a change to OpenJDK 8, it should be reviewed here on the awt-dev@ and 2d-dev@ mailing lists.
>>
>> --
>> best regards,
>> Anthony
>>
>> On 12/22/2012 11:15, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
>>> Anthony,
>>> Should we do it for all system or at least,
>>> use bundled header for bundled library?
>>> -Dmitry
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: openjdk7 - use installed png and jpeg libraries
>>> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 22:24:02 -0500
>>> From: Mikhail T.<mi+thun at aldan.algebra.com>
>>> To: glewis at FreeBSD.org
>>> CC: java at FreeBSD.org
>>> Hello!
>>> The attached diff teaches java/openjdk7 to rely on the
>>> graphics/{png,jpeg} ports instead of compiling libpng and libjpeg from
>>> sources bundled by Oracle.
>>> This is especially important for jpeg, because currently build uses the
>>> already installed headers while compiling the bundled sources -- in case
>>> of any discrepancies there may be nasty problems.
>>> It is also just cleaner and affords the use of better optimized image
>>> libraries (such as assembly-optimized png and jpeg-turbo).
>>> Unfortunately, the port currently does not include check/regression-test
>>> target, so I my limited testing consisted of simply restarting vuze --
>>> this worked, but I am not certain, it exercises the modified code.
>>> Please, take a look. Thank you! Yours,
>>>     -mi