[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] <AWT Dev> Use of obsolete png_check_sig function in splashscreen_png.c

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 8 June 2010 13:57, Anthony Petrov <Anthony.Petrov at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On 06/07/2010 10:05 PM, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>>
>>> >From our side, I think it would be more useful to see in-tree support
>>> for building against the system libpng as we never use the in-tree
>>> version anyway.  Using the system version means we are better covered
>>> for security updates and new versions of libpng don't first need to be
>>> imported into the OpenJDK tree.
>
> There's a CR 6565114 (Allow using system copies of libjpeg, libpng and
> giflib for splashscreen) for this task. However we've never seen a working
> version of the patch.
>

I wasn't aware of this bug ID so thanks for that.  I think the final
solution needs to cover more than just splashscreen though, as there
are other uses of libjpeg elsewhere.

I don't know about this patch by the bug reporter.  The one in IcedTea
is pretty unusable upstream; it removes the in-tree libraries and
forces system libraries.  That's fine for distros, but for OpenJDK we
don't want to disrupt the status quo.  I've been meaning to look at
this for a while, but just haven't got round to it.  Maybe after the
next IcedTea7 release...

> --
> best regards,
> Anthony
>

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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