RFR: JDK-8176785 Add build support to generate PNG file from .dot file

Mandy Chung mandy.chung at oracle.com
Mon Apr 10 15:02:57 UTC 2017


> On Apr 10, 2017, at 12:07 AM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2017-04-08 00:14, Mandy Chung wrote:
>> Can I build OpenJDK with the docs with module graphs when I
>> have Graphviz installed? I would think we need a configure
>> option to specify my local path to `dot` that will enable
>> the module graph build.  Is it possible?
> Yes, it is possible. Configure will look for dot on the path by default and if found, "full docs" will be enabled implicitly.
> 
> For such a simple dependency as this, basically we just need the path to an executable, we don't need to define actual configure arguments. You can simply override the value on the command line like this:
> 
> bash configure DOT=/path/to/dot


Thanks.  That would do it.

Mandy


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