RFR(XXS): 8062312: OpenJDK build fails when bundling freetype libraries

[Erik Joelsson]

Hello Volker,

The change looks good, but I would like a comment explaining why 
install-file isn't used. Otherwise it's quite possible we will break 
this again in future cleanups.

/Erik

On 2014-10-28 20:18, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> could you please review the following tiny change which fixes the copy
> step of the freetype libraries after 8058756:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/webrevs/8062312/
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8062312
>
> After the fix for "JDK-8058756: OpenJDK builds fail on Windows -
> cannot copy freetype.dll" the build fails on Unix if the freetype
> library which should be bundled is a symbolic link. This is because
> 8058756 replaced the copy operation by a call to $(install-file) which
> preserves symlinks.
>
> The fix is easy: just roll back to the initial copy operation and
> insert an 'mkdir -p' for the target directory (as initially proposed
> as fix for 8058756).
>
> Built and smoke tested on Linux, Solaris, Windows and MacOS X.
>
> Thank you and best regards,
> Volker