RfA JDK-8077296 RE build fails on non-Win builds when attempting to build Win only javadoc

[Seán Coffey]

Approved. Please add noreg-build label to the bug report.

Regards,
Sean.

On 27/05/15 16:35, Pete Brunet wrote:
> I'd like to push the JDK-8077296 patch to 8u.
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8077296
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2015-May/009392.html
>
> Background:
> - As part of the open sourcing of the JAB and Java Accessibility
> Utilities (JAU) the JAU Javadoc was set up to be added to the build.
> - Due to an 8u RE build issue (it uses source bundles) the Javadoc had
> to be temporarily disabled: JDK-8076552
> - The issue was caused by JAU code being in windows instead of share.
>    - For 9 the JAU code is in
> jdk.accessibility/share/classes/com/sun/java/accessibility/util (and the
> JAB code under jdk.accessibility/windows).
>    - For 8u both the JAU and JAB code is in jdk/src/windows.
> - The problem on 8u is with non-windows builds; the 8 Javadoc build
> process doesn't find the JAU files because they are in a windows directory.
> - The fix is to refactor so 8u is like 9 with the JAU files in share;
> then the javadoc build process will find the source for all build platforms.
> - Make has been changed so jaccess.jar is built for all platforms.
> - Some obsolete files have been removed as they were causing build
> problems.  They were removed from 9 earlier but not from 8u.  These are
> com/sun/java/accessibility/util/java/awt/ChoiceTranslator.java and all
> the files in com/sun/java/accessibility/extensions.
>
> I tested this by doing a source bundles build on Win, transferring the
> zips to Mac, unzipping the zips, and building from the unzipped files.
> That build was successful and the use of jaccess.jar was successful.
>
> Pete