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

Magnus Ihse Bursie ihse at openjdk.org
Tue Nov 28 15:36:05 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.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: ebbef629
Author:    Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/ebbef629c74dc670adc74a3905a6acf17dbd7200
Stats:     104 lines in 4 files changed: 0 ins; 103 del; 1 mod

8320769: Remove ill-adviced "make install" target

Reviewed-by: erikj, shade

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


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