Freetype in Mountain Lion and higher

[Anthony Petrov]

Hi Henri,

As Mike mentioned several times, and I agree with him, the best approach 
would be to build a private copy of the freetype library when OpenJDK is 
being built, and ship it together with the OpenJDK binaries. In this 
case we avoid having unnecessary dependencies on optional OS X 
components, and also get rid of any library versions issues that may 
arise when e.g. (not) upgrading your operating system.

Note that we do that with OpenJDK on MS Windows platform. Please refer 
to the Windows make files for more details. Patches are always welcome! :)

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best regards,
Anthony

On 5/2/2012 3:19 PM, Henri Gomez wrote:
> 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) ?