RFR: 8320769: Remove ill-adviced "make install" target [v2]

Magnus Ihse Bursie ihse at openjdk.org
Tue Nov 28 15:36:03 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.

Magnus Ihse Bursie has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains two commits:

 - Merge branch 'master' into remove-make-install
 - 8320769: Remove ill-adviced "make install" target

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Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16826/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=16826&range=01
  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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