freetype_versioncheck failed to compile

[Jonathan Lu]

Anybody interested in this change? does it sound reasonable?
Thanks and regards!

On 12/20/2011 08:39 PM, Jonathan Lu wrote:
> Hi build-dev,
>
> On some Unix environments, such as AIX, the link option to set library 
> search patch is the same as Solaris. But in current script the  option 
> to link tool freetype_versioncheck is the same as Linux, this makes 
> the tool cannot be compiled on AIX.
> So in order to improve portability, here I propose a patch to adjust 
> the default link option to Solaris' definition.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~luchsh/ft_ld_option_sequence/
>
> For other platforms, such as Mac OS X and BSD, I found there's some 
> definitions there in macosx port project[1], so maybe we can just wait 
> for the incoming merge, right?
>
> [1] 
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/macosx-port/macosx-port/jdk/file/2a76fda3fe23/make/tools/freetypecheck/Makefile
>
> Cheers,
> - Jonathan Lu
>