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Re: libfontconfig1 missing in openjdk-8-jre-headless

From Joel Chen <joelchen@msn.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.maint.java, linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Re: libfontconfig1 missing in openjdk-8-jre-headless
Date 2015-08-03 08:20 +0200
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Hi Emmanuel,

Thank you for the followup.

Looking forward to have libfontconfig1 added in the next version of openjdk-8-jre-headless, so that my projects and others' projects can run smoothly on the latest Java Docker container.

Warmest Regards,
Joel

> On 30 Jul 2015, at 9:30 pm, Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> Le 29/07/2015 21:22, Joel Chen a écrit :
>> When openjdk-8-jre-headless is used under openjdk-8-jre Docker
>> container, using Font in Java application triggers NullPointerException.
> 
> Hi Joel,
> 
> Thank you for the report. It looks like the IcedTea build used for the
> openjdk-7 package links explicitly against the system fontconfig, the
> INSTALL file has this mention |1] :
> 
> * --enable-system-fontconfig: Build and link against the system
> installation of fontconfig instead of trying to dynamically open it at
> runtime.
> 
> and the default value is "yes".
> 
> For the openjdk-8 package we didn't use IcedTea, and the upstream build
> still doesn't link against fontconfig. The library is simply detected
> and loaded dynamically in jdk/src/solaris/native/sun/awt/fontpath.c [2].
> This explains why the -headless package is missing the dependency.
> 
> The openjdk-8-jre package is also missing the libfontconfig1 dependency
> compared to openjdk-7-jre, but it gets it transitively through the
> dependency on libgtk2.0-0.
> 
> Now I wonder if we want to add a font dependency on a headless package.
> It already depends on libfreetype6, so why not libfontconfig1 too after all.
> 
> Emmanuel Bourg
> 
> [1] http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea7/file/58824316f50a/INSTALL#l120
> [2]
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/file/687fd7c7986d/src/solaris/native/sun/awt/fontpath.c#l595
> 
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libfontconfig1 missing in openjdk-8-jre-headless Joel Chen <joelchen@msn.com> - 2015-07-29 21:30 +0200
  Re: libfontconfig1 missing in openjdk-8-jre-headless tony <tmancill@debian.org> - 2015-07-29 22:10 +0200
    Re: libfontconfig1 missing in openjdk-8-jre-headless Joel Chen <joelchen@msn.com> - 2015-07-29 22:40 +0200
  Re: libfontconfig1 missing in openjdk-8-jre-headless Joel Chen <joelchen@msn.com> - 2015-08-03 08:20 +0200

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