Request for review : FreeType embedded in OSX packages

Henri Gomez henri.gomez at gmail.com
Tue Oct 16 23:03:16 PDT 2012


> Can you please not cross-post to multiple mailing lists?  This should be reviewed first
> by macosx-port-dev for OpenJDK8, then a second proposal made for backport to 7u. I'm
> receiving three copies of each post here.

Oups my bad, I'll be more carefull next time.

> As to the patch, from the point of view of building on GNU/Linux, from reading the patch, it won't
> affect our builds so it's fine by me.  We definitely don't want freetype being copied into
> trees on GNU/Linux.

I agree.

BTWl CentOS/RHEL 5 require FreeType to be embedded since these distros
don't provide FT 2.4.x, it's the way I do it in obuildfactory for
CentOS/RHEL 5.


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