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

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> Approved.
> 
> Please add the 'regression' and 'noreg-build' labels to the bug report.
> 

Done. http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u-dev/jdk/rev/8f8011a977a6

> 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,
> 
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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