From Archana Nogriya <archana.nogriya@uk.ibm.com> on build-dev:

If we have a conditional variable to set "hotspot-$(JVM_VARIANT_MAIN)-gensrc" target then this can give way to alternate VMs like eclipse openj9 to extend that to set it appropriately.

diff --git a/make/Main.gmk b/make/Main.gmk
index 731e9c9934..444a835cb4 100644
--- a/make/Main.gmk
+++ b/make/Main.gmk
@@ -830,7 +830,8 @@ else
   docs-reference-api-modulegraph: exploded-image buildtools-modules
 
   # The gensrc steps for hotspot and jdk.jdi create html spec files.
- docs-jdk-specs: jdk.jdi-gensrc \
+ JVM_DOCS_SPEC_TARGET ?= hotspot-$(JVM_VARIANT_MAIN)-gensrc
+ docs-jdk-specs: $(JVM_DOCS_SPEC_TARGET) jdk.jdi-gensrc \
       docs-jdk-index


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diff --git a/make/Docs.gmk b/make/Docs.gmk
index 644ffbf74a..73ffb8ebd2 100644
--- a/make/Docs.gmk
+++ b/make/Docs.gmk
@@ -561,12 +561,12 @@ $(eval $(call SetupCopyFiles, COPY_JDWP_PROTOCOL, \
 JDK_SPECS_TARGETS += $(COPY_JDWP_PROTOCOL)
 
# Get jvmti.html from the main jvm variant (all variants' jvmti.html are identical).
-JVMTI_HTML := $(HOTSPOT_OUTPUTDIR)/variant-$(JVM_VARIANT_MAIN)/gensrc/jvmtifiles/jvmti.html
-$(eval $(call SetupCopyFiles, COPY_JVMTI_HTML, \
- FILES := $(JVMTI_HTML), \
- DEST := $(DOCS_OUTPUTDIR)/specs, \
-))
-JDK_SPECS_TARGETS += $(COPY_JVMTI_HTML)
+JVMTI_HTML ?= $(HOTSPOT_OUTPUTDIR)/variant-$(JVM_VARIANT_MAIN)/gensrc/jvmtifiles/jvmti.html
+$(eval $(call SetupCopyFiles, COPY_JVMTI_HTML, \
+ FILES := $(JVMTI_HTML), \
+ DEST := $(DOCS_OUTPUTDIR)/specs, \
+))
+JDK_SPECS_TARGETS += $(COPY_JVMTI_HTML)
 
Note: This proposal has been tested in local.

Thanks and Regards
Archana Nogriya
IBM Java Runtime, Open Java Developer
IBM Hursley
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