Installation of man page for proprietary javaws

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Tue Feb 22 12:54:37 UTC 2011


Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> It seems that the OpenJDK build installs a man page for javaws,
> yet there is no javaws implementation in OpenJDK.  
>
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=633
>
> This only happens on 32-bit platforms, hence why I've never seen it
> myself.  I've posted a webrev:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/javaws/webrev.01/
>
> which disables the installation when building OpenJDK.  If you don't
> need this man page for the proprietary installation either, we could
> instead just get rid of the man pages and the appropriate lines in the
> Makefile.
>
> Thoughts?
>   
Probably a small oversight that just wasn't noticed before.  I've 
created a bug to track it:

7021314: Build should not install javaws man page

The changes in the webrev look right solution to me but I'll leave it to 
Kelly to review.

-Alan.



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