Freetype in Mountain Lion and higher

Henri Gomez henri.gomez at gmail.com
Wed May 2 04:19:18 PDT 2012


Hi to all,

We discussed some time about OpenJDK dependencies on Freetype.
Support for X11 will be removed in Mountain Lion but Freetype is not
stricto-senso related to X11.

A quick look on its dependencies on Lion show no deps on X11 (only
gzip and bzip).

/usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib:
	/usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib (compatibility version 14.0.0,
current version 14.2.0)
	/usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.5)
	/usr/lib/libbz2.1.0.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.5)
	/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
version 159.1.0)

Will Freetype dylib be removed on 10.8 or will still be supported (and
bundled) ?


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