There are 2 problems in the Doc.gmk file with respect to setting up the
footer option for javadoc.
1. Line 55.
JAVADOC_BASE_URL :=
http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=javase9&id=homepage
The & should be escaped as an entity and should be & by the time the
string gets passed into javadoc.
2. Line 134
<a href="$(JAVADOC_BASE_URL)/index.html" target="_blank">Java SE \
/index.html is being added to the string being passed into javadoc. That
is wrong and causes a 404 when you click onthe link in the generated pages.
Also, with the new base URL the -Xdocrootparent does not make sense,
since you can't append a relative path to it. If a derived version of
OpenJDK wants to patch Docs.gmk to provide a different JAVADOC_BASE_URL,
they'll also have to patch it to explicitly provide a -Xdocrootparent
flag. But as OpenJDK by itself looks, the -Xdocrootparent flag is just
broken.
Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8180328
WebRev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8180328-bad-docroot/webrev.01
/Magnus
