Bug #13315
closedjdk11 makes consistent javadoc generation impossible
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Description
While #13083 enabled builds using jdk11, if jdk11 is updated to the latest release the build fails:
==== package build errors (non-DEBUG) ====
dmake: Warning: Command failed for target `packages.i386/developer-dtrace.pub'
dmake: Warning: Target `install' not remade because of errors
==== Validating manifests against proto area ====
Entries present in manifests but not proto area:
file NOHASH group=other mode=0644 owner=root path=usr/share/lib/java/javadoc/dtrace/api/jquery/jquery-3.3.1.js
file NOHASH group=other mode=0644 owner=root path=usr/share/lib/java/javadoc/dtrace/api/jquery/jquery-migrate-3.0.1.js
Entries present in proto area but not manifests:
file usr/share/lib/java/javadoc/dtrace/api/jquery/jquery-3.5.1.js group=group mode=0644 owner=owner path=usr/share/lib/java/javadoc/dtrace/api/jquery/jquery-3.5.1.js
Fundamentally, the generated javadoc (i's only libdtrace_jni, the other javadoc in the gate has already been dropped) is liable to change between java updates in essentially arbitrary fashion.
Rather than attempt to track every single update, it seems cleaner to not build or package javadoc. Rather, we could generate the javadoc output out of band and make it available online where it can be accessed from anywhere.
I've generated the javadoc for the code we have and put a copy here temporarily for examination:
https://pkgs.tribblix.org/javadoc/
Removing javadoc from the build makes ongoing maintenance much easier, as handling the javadoc was a large part of the effort involved in adding support for newer java versions.
Updated by Peter Tribble over 1 year ago
Testing: Build and packaging are clean when built with both java 8 and 11. Checked (by reviewing nightly.log) that javadoc isn't run, and that nothing unexpected ends up in the proto area.
Updated by Electric Monk over 1 year ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
git commit 273d774d1d685415fd99d31224bdae55e7cfb793
commit 273d774d1d685415fd99d31224bdae55e7cfb793 Author: Peter Tribble <peter.tribble@gmail.com> Date: 2020-11-23T19:25:04.000Z 13315 jdk11 makes consistent javadoc generation impossible Reviewed by: Andy Fiddaman <andy@omniosce.org> Reviewed by: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com> Approved by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@fingolfin.org>