RFR: 8320769: Remove ill-adviced "make install" target

Magnus Ihse Bursie ihse at openjdk.org
Mon Nov 27 14:49:15 UTC 2023


In theory, you can run "make install" on a newly built JDK to have it installed in /usr/local/bin, just as with many system tools.

This is not recommended to do. You might mess up your boot JDK, and Java installations generally do not work like this. (Instead, you are likely to have symbolic links to e.g. bin/java, bin/javac etc in a JDK home.)

This code is not only old and untested, I also think it offers the user a very unwise move. It should be removed.

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Commit messages:
 - 8320769: Remove ill-adviced "make install" target

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16826/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=16826&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8320769
  Stats: 104 lines in 4 files changed: 0 ins; 103 del; 1 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16826.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/16826/head:pull/16826

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16826


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