RFR: 8371914: PNG defines in CFLAGS can cause compilation errors with external libpng

Kurt Miller kurt at openjdk.org
Mon Dec 1 21:52:02 UTC 2025


On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:48:14 GMT, Kurt Miller <kurt at openjdk.org> wrote:

> When building with external libpng the PNG defines added to CFLAGS may conflict with the installed libpng header pnglibconf.h resulting in compilation errors. For example on OpenBSD/aarch64:
> 
> `/usr/local/include/pnglibconf.h:207:9: error: 'PNG_ARM_NEON_OPT' macro redefined [-Werror,-Wmacro-redefined]`
> 
> This moves all `-DPNG_*` into the case where internal libpng is used. This has only been tested with the tier1 github actions so needs to be checked on Linux/ppc and AIX.

Could someone from client review this PR please? It would be helpful to the future bsd-port integration to correct this. Thank you

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28324#issuecomment-3599107891


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