Zlib level in JDK7

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 15 February 2011 20:23, Phil Race <philip.race at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 2/15/2011 6:07 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>
>> Yes, IcedTea uses system libraries for everything bar LCMS, where
>> local changes in OpenJDK mean we are still forced to use the in-tree
>> version.  There hasn't been any success upstreaming these changes,
>> though I haven't looked at LCMS 2.x.
>
>   LittleCMS 1.x  didn't provide the support necessary to pass JCK. So we
> talked to
>   the LittleCMS maintainer and he added the necessary APIs in 2.0
>   JDK 7 has had LittleCMS 2.0 for almost 6 months now and that is included
> without any code
>   modifications, so I think it should now be possible to use a system
> library, although
>   we didn't do the work to actually enable that, so its built into a JDK
> library which
>   has the littlecms code and the glue code. We need to provide the ability
> to separate these.
>   When we pushed LCMS 2.0, I asked for a bug to be filed to remember to do
> this work
>   but I can't find it in the database. I'll ask for that to be filed if it
> wasn't already.
>   NB It didn't seem super-urgent since we pulled in LCMS 2.0 relatively soon
> after its release
>   we thought shipping distros weren't likely to have the library upgrade
> anyway, but that's
>   probably changing.
>
> -phil.
>
>

Hi Phil,

Thanks for making me aware of this.  I briefly glanced at some for the
release notes for LCMS 2 when it was released, and saw something that
may support the missing functionality, but never had chance to look in
detail.  I've also not had chance to look at OpenJDK 7 recently, so
it's great to hear that support has already gone in.  Do you have any
idea as to whether this would be safe to backport to OpenJDK 6?  I
presume it doesn't alter any public API.

I've not seen any use of OpenJDK 7 by distros as yet.  We've managed
with the other libraries without in-tree support by using local
patching.  There's a big libraries patch in IcedTea that would be nice
to integrate but it would need considerable work to do optional system
linking rather than the current brute force of deleting the in-tree
version and always linking.  There's also no TCK for 7 yet, which is I
believe what caught many of the issues with missing LCMS support
before.

I did a quick survey of distro support for LCMS 2.  It's in Gentoo
(which is what made me aware of it), but Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora all
seem to still be on the 1.x series.  So it doesn't seem to be changing
yet.  Maybe OpenJDK could be the kick they need to support it? ;-)
-- 
Andrew :-)

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