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  1. JDK
  2. JDK-8217032

Check pandoc capabilities in configure

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    • linux

        The JDK build will try to build manual pages if pandoc is present.

        However that is not sufficient since you also need to check for
        support for the required format.

        JDK uses markdown-smart which isn't present on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
        which has pandoc 1.16.0.2
        $ pandoc -v
        pandoc 1.16.0.2

        $ pandoc -f markdown-smart
        pandoc: Unknown extension: smart

        It isn't clear to me that there is a way to install an extension
        since the man page for pandoc lists all the supported formats.
        So unless I am missing something this breaks the default build
        on Linux for many folks.
        Note : I have looked to see if this has been reported and I saw discussion but no bug.

              erikj Erik Joelsson
              prr Philip Race
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