[7u12] Request for approval for CR 7192804 - Build should not install jvisualvm man page for OpenJDK

[Seán Coffey]

Approved for jdk7u-dev.

regards,
Sean.

On 10/10/2012 16:39, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> Bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7192804
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/7192804/webrev.01/
> OpenJDK8 Thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2012-August/006645.html
> OpenJDK8 Changeset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/baf30df50ce3
>
> Rationale:
>
> The fix for 7157855 added a VisualVM man page into the installed man pages for
> all builds.  However, VisualVM is not part of OpenJDK builds.  This patch changes
> the Makefile so that jvisualvm.1 is only installed on non-OpenJDK builds.
>
> Differences from 8:
>
> The patch is as-is on 8, except that the change to makefiles/Images.gmk (part of the new
> build system only in 8) has been dropped.
>
> Testing:
>
> An OpenJDK build on x86_64+GNU/Linux shows that jvisualvm.1 is no longer installed with this
> patch applied.  There is no way of testing the proprietary build.
>