On Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:43:09 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> In theory, you can run "make install" on a newly built JDK to have it 
> installed in /usr/local/bin, just as with many system tools.
> 
> This is not recommended to do. You might mess up your boot JDK, and Java 
> installations generally do not work like this. (Instead, you are likely to 
> have symbolic links to e.g. bin/java, bin/javac etc in a JDK home.)
> 
> This code is not only old and untested, I also think it offers the user a 
> very unwise move. It should be removed.

Marked as reviewed by erikj (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16826#pullrequestreview-1750695232

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