Installation of man page for proprietary javaws

[Kelly O'Hair]

On Feb 22, 2011, at 5:42 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:

> 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.

Looks ok to me.

-kto

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