[jdk11u-dev] RFR: 8251549: Update docs on building for Git

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 09:18:39 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > > The `*.md` change looks good, but `*.html` has a lot of irrelevant changes. This is usually caused by a different version of pandoc used to generate the HTML file.
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> > I see. Makes sense. Do you know which pandoc version we need? I have `2.9.2.1`
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> Look at `./make/conf/jib-profiles.js` in the 11u tree and in current master. Chances are there is no exact Pandoc version that produces the same HTML file _exactly_, but we probably want to have it as close to current version as possible. So that we generate the HTML file once here, and then stick with the particular Pandoc version going forward.

Thanks!

Found the needed version, I think. Seems to be `1.17.2`
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk11u-dev/blob/master/make/devkit/createPandocBundle.sh#L34

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk11u-dev/pull/205