RFR: 8013552: Add build support for different man pages for OpenJDK and OracleJDK

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 2013-04-30 16:26, Omair Majid wrote:
> > On 04/30/2013 05:57 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> >> Open part of this review:
> >>
> >> The docs team will start producing separate man pages for openjdk and
> >> oraclejdk. Here are the necessary changes to the makefiles to support
> >> this. This was already done for 7u, but these are the changes for 8.
> >>
> >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8013552/webrev.jdk.01/
> > Looks okay to me, assuming the corresponding man pages are present under
> > the closed directory.
> >
> Thanks!
> > On a slight tangent, when I last tried to push fixes (mainly typos and
> > spelling errors) to the man pages, I was informed that this is taken
> > care of by the documentation team who sync official documentation with
> > the man pages periodically. Are they still going to be maintaining both
> > open and closed man pages?
> >
> Yes, they are and that's the reason I'm doing this. The man pages in the
> jdk source tree are generated files that the docs team periodically updates.
> 

Will the source files be added to the OpenJDK trees at some point?

> /Erik
> 
> 

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Andrew :)

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