PING: [PATCH FOR REVIEW] System Zlib Support

[Alan Bateman]

On 03/08/2012 19:33, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> :
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/syslibs/zlib/webrev.02/
>
> is an updated version which checks if ZLIB_LIBS is set on Solaris, GNU/Linux
> and MacOS X and sets it to -lz if not.
>
> I wasn't sure what to do with Windows but something can be added there if necessary.
Thanks for the update, it looks right to me now. To double check I did a 
quick build+test on all platforms with latest jdk8/tl + your patch and I 
don't see any issues.

Now I'm wondering whether we should just bite the bullet and default 
SYSTEM_ZLIB to true on Linux, maybe Solaris too (Sherman - can you think 
of any reasons not to do this? It would avoid needing to put in a means 
to switch zlib at startup as it could be done simply with LD_LIBRARY_PATH).

-Alan.