docs requires hotspot?

[Jonathan Gibbons]

If we haven't got better dependency management out of build-infra then 
it's all been a waste of time.

OK, maybe that's a bit strong, but it is really bizarre to hear about 
"extra complexity" to not build all of hotspot when just trying to build 
the docs.

-- Jon

On 12/21/2012 02:49 AM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> The hotspot repo also contributes to the total docs (jvmti, maybe more?), so technically, even hotspot needs to be
> run to create all the docs.
> It's possible the jvmti doc isn't needed for the jdk api javadocs, but at least the jdi javadocs will refer to jvmti I think.
>
> So this is a slippery slope, be careful.
>
> -kto
>
> On Dec 11, 2012, at 2:44 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>
>> I was a bit quick to reply here. Docs are dependent on jdk, for generated classes at least, and jdk is dependent on hotspot. Could these dependencies be more fine granular, yes, but the question is if it's worth the extra complexity.
>>
>> /Erik
>>
>> On 2012-12-11 10:29, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>>> Good point. Should fix those dependencies. Filed 8004844.
>>>
>>> On 2012-12-11 03:29, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>>>> If I build the docs target in an otherwise clean environment, the build still wades through compiling hotspot. Is this really necessary and/or to be expected?
>>>>
>>>> Don't we use interim-javadoc running on the BOOT_JAVA to build docs?
>>>>
>>>> -- Jon