RFR: 8320769: Remove ill-adviced "make install" target
Erik Joelsson
erikj at openjdk.org
Mon Nov 27 15:24:08 UTC 2023
On Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:43:09 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:
> 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.
Marked as reviewed by erikj (Reviewer).
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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16826#pullrequestreview-1750695232
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