Installation of man page for proprietary javaws

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 12:54 Tue 22 Feb     , Alan Bateman wrote:
> 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.

It's taken me this long to notice it.  If you build on a 64-bit platform,
you're not going to see it.  It seems distros have been silently deleting
it for a while without bothering to tell upstream :-(

>  I've 
> created a bug to track it:
> 
> 7021314: Build should not install javaws man page
>

Great.  Thanks.  I'll await Kelly's review.
 
> The changes in the webrev look right solution to me but I'll leave it to 
> Kelly to review.
> 
> -Alan.

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