Javadoc fails on aggregator modules

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 1/2/24 10:17 AM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>
>
> On 12/27/23 12:10 PM, Ethan McCue wrote:
>> For projects which contain only a module-info that transitively 
>> requires other modules - i.e. like java.se <http://java.se> - the 
>> javadoc tool will fail.
>>
>> This presents a problem for publishing those sorts of artifacts to 
>> Maven Central, which requires some javadoc jar in order to publish. 
>> The only workaround i've found is to go into the build tool, skip 
>> normal javadoc generation, and do it through a hacked script.
>>
>> Is there a workaround I am missing, is this an intentional 
>> deficiency, or is this something that should be fixed?
>
> Hi Ethan,
>
> Thanks for the report. This is for sure not an intentional deficiency!
>
> This needs to be investigated and fixed as appropriate.
>
> -- Jon
>

https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8322865

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