On 12:54 Tue 22 Feb , Alan Bateman wrote: > Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > > It seems that the OpenJDK build installs a man page for javaws, > > yet there is no javaws implementation in OpenJDK. > > > > http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=633 > > > > This only happens on 32-bit platforms, hence why I've never seen it > > myself. I've posted a webrev: > > > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/javaws/webrev.01/ > > > > which disables the installation when building OpenJDK. If you don't > > need this man page for the proprietary installation either, we could > > instead just get rid of the man pages and the appropriate lines in the > > Makefile. > > > > Thoughts? > > > Probably a small oversight that just wasn't noticed before.
It's taken me this long to notice it. If you build on a 64-bit platform, you're not going to see it. It seems distros have been silently deleting it for a while without bothering to tell upstream :-( > I've > created a bug to track it: > > 7021314: Build should not install javaws man page > Great. Thanks. I'll await Kelly's review. > The changes in the webrev look right solution to me but I'll leave it to > Kelly to review. > > -Alan. -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and IcedTea http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://icedtea.classpath.org PGP Key: F5862A37 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EA30 D855 D50F 90CD F54D 0698 0713 C3ED F586 2A37
