RFR: JDK-8031767 Support system or alternative implementations of zlib

[Alan Bateman]

On 10/02/2016 13:57, Seán Coffey wrote:
> I'm all for allowing one to introduce a new version of zlib to their 
> JDK at runtime. I just don't think it's in the interests of 
> enterprises and stability to introduce a dependency to the JDK on the 
> underlying OS zlib libraries. Could we at least consider a runtime 
> property to allow linking to the (currently bundled) zlib v.1.2.8 port 
> in case issues arise ?
Don't the LD_* environment variables serve this need already? Once the 
JDK is using the system zlib then this is the simplest way to get it to 
use a different libz library at runtime.

-Alan