[8u-dev] Request for approval for CR 8057538: Build the freetype library during configure on Windows

[Kevin Walls]

Hi,

I'd like to request approval to backport from 9 to 8u:

8057538: Build the freetype library during configure on Windows
JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8057538

9 changeset:
URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/rev/5d7de212359d

9 review thread: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2014-September/013240.html


This request is not so much about freetype, but about backporting 
changes which make further changes easier.

To clarify, bulding freetype from source is a new option, not compulsory.

This imports cleanly to 8u, (in my clone where I've applied 8022177 
already), except the generated file which we rebuild.

Thanks
Kevin