[8u60] Request for approval for CR 8081315: 8077982 giflib upgrade breaks system giflib builds with earlier versions

[Seán Coffey]

Approved.

Please add the 'regression' and 'noreg-build' labels to the bug report.

Regards,
Sean.

On 17/06/15 17:03, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8081315
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/8u/8081315/webrev.01/
> Original thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/2d-dev/2015-June/005465.html
>
> The upgrade to giflib 5 in 8077982 causes a regression from u40, whereby
> it is no longer possible to build using --with-giflib=system if the
> system version of giflib < 5.1. This is the case on the majority
> of GNU/Linux distributions at present.
>
> The patch from OpenJDK 9 applies as is, once the file path is corrected.
>
> Ok to push to 8u?
>
> Thanks,