RFR: 8353573: System giflib not found by configure if it's not in system directories

Tue Apr 8 11:32:19 UTC 2025

On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 08:04:50 GMT, snake66 <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The configure script is not able to pick up the giflib installed via system packages if it's not located in the system include and lib directories. Since giflib does not provide a pkgconfig, arguments to specify the location of the include and library files needs to be added to the configure script. 
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> This work is sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation

Anybody care to sponsor this change? Would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24404#issuecomment-2786129621