It makes perfect sense to me to remove it from being generated. As part of building OpenSCG's OpenJDK 6 one-click Win32 installer I've been removing it at packaging time.
--Luss http://openscg.org/openjdk On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com>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. I've created a > bug to track it: > > 7021314: Build should not install javaws man page > > The changes in the webrev look right solution to me but I'll leave it to > Kelly to review. > > -Alan. >
