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

[David Buck]

approved

Cheers,
-Buck

On 2018/04/19 1:32, Kevin Walls wrote:
> 
> 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
>