[PATCH] Freetype Directory Bug On zLinux

[Adam Farley8]

On 01/12/2018 03:29 PM, Adam Farley8 wrote:
>> On zLinux, freetype's .so file is typically installed in
>> /usr/lib/s390x-linux-gnu, however the generated configure script 
doesn't
>> look for it there.
>
>Odd. Normally I would expect it to look in the locations that are
>set through /etc/ld.so.conf{,.d}

>From the configure output, it appears to look for it in x86_64-linux-gnu
so I don't know what to tell you.

>
>> This causes configure to fail. I know you can avoid that with options, 
but
>> I think a fix would be better.
>> 
>> If we add this code to lib-freetype.m4 (line 365) and re-run 
autogen.sh,
>> this fixes the problem.
>> 
>> if test "x$FOUND_FREETYPE" != xyes; then
>>     FREETYPE_BASE_DIR="$SYSROOT/usr"
>>     if test "x$OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU_ARCH" = xs390; then
>>        LIB_CHECK_POTENTIAL_FREETYPE([$FREETYPE_BASE_DIR/include],
>> [$FREETYPE_BASE_DIR/lib/s390x-linux-gnu], [well-known location])
>>     fi
>> fi
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>
>Seems like a workaround for an actual bug to me. Also, on Debian s390x,
>the directory for shared libraries is also /usr/lib/s390x-linux-gnu:
>
>glaubitz at zelenka:~$ ls -dl /usr/lib/s390x-linux-gnu
>drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 28672 Dec 18 08:20 /usr/lib/s390x-linux-gnu
>glaubitz at zelenka:~$
>
>And I'm quite sure we don't have a quirk in the Debian openjdk package
>in the form of a patch. So, I'm not sure why the configure doesn't work
>in your case.

When you run configure, do you use --disable-warnings-as-errors?
Like here: https://github.com/linux-on-ibm-z/docs/wiki/Building-OpenJDK
If you use that, the error goes away, and it doesn't seem to adversely 
affect the build.

>
>Adrian
>
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