> On Oct 14, 2016, at 5:55 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On 13/10/2016 03:22, Mandy Chung wrote: > >> Webrev: >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk9/webrevs/8167558/webrev.00/ >> >> Header files and man pages are currently copied to the image. The header >> files are modularized and in the following directory: >> src/$MODULE/share/native/include >> >> The man page for the corresponding tool should also be modularized. >> >> This patch proposes to add a JMOD section for include header files and one >> for man pages such that they should be packaged in a JMOD file of the module >> they belong to. > The changes to add the new section looks good, as does the options for the > jmod tool. > > For jlink then --no-man-pages and --no-header-files look good (as > demonstrated by how they are used in Images.gmk to create the JRE). I'm less > sure about the exclude-jmod-section plugin needing the flexibility to exclude > the resources in the man page or headers section for specific modules. I > would be tempted to leave that out unless it is really needed.
I think it should be rare to exclude resources in the man page or headers section for specific modules. On the other hand, —-exclude-files can exclude resources and that should be used in case of excluding any specific resources. I will leave that out. Mandy
