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. This pull request has now been integrated. Changeset: ebbef629 Author: Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> URL: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/ebbef629c74dc670adc74a3905a6acf17dbd7200 Stats: 104 lines in 4 files changed: 0 ins; 103 del; 1 mod 8320769: Remove ill-adviced "make install" target Reviewed-by: erikj, shade ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16826
