[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8176509: Use pandoc for converting build readme to html

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:08:19 GMT, Zdenek Zambersky <zzambers at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > Looks good to me. 8u build requirements seem to have been retained as is and I think moving the file to the final place here is the right thing to do.
> 
> Yy, pandoc should be optional, it builds without it in GHA.
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> Unfortunately there is little additional noise in `generated-configure.sh`'s diff concerning `--runstatedir` option, even though, I have used same version of autofonf, as was used before (2.69). It boils down to whether autoconf is ran on distro which has [specific backport](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1831941#c6). (Not present on rhel-8 I used) But I don't think this affects OpenJDK in any way.

No, it shouldn't and one can always regenerate configure if it is an issue. I'm in two minds about whether it is finally time to backport [JDK-8195689](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8195689) to 8u and get rid of this once and for all. It is the only JDK to have this baggage (it is removed in 11u and up) and I think it causes more problems than it solves, but then I've never been a fan of bundling generated files to begin with.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/370#issuecomment-1809262968