Eclipse 3.0 Running on Kaffe

Thomas Fogwill tfogwill@csir.co.za
Wed Jan 12 07:41:01 2005


first off, excellent work! You seem to have put in some major effort!

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 00:04 -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote: 
> These are compiled for my desktop installation of Ubuntu warty/hoary.
> The source packages should be re-compilable on unstable. PLEASE
> RECOMPILE!

I did (with kaffe), and it seems to compile fine. However, I did spot a
few issues. 

Firstly, the startup.jar symlink is broken: 
/usr/share/eclipse/startup.jar -> /plugins/org.eclipse.platform_*/startup.jar

This should be plugins/org.eclipse.platform_*/startup.jar, I'm sure.

Anyway, there isn't any startup.jar in 
/usr/share/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.platform_3.0.1/

I manually added it, and fixed the symlink, which works.

This build runs fine (so far) with kaffe, but does not run at all with
any other VMs: (tried: Sun's 1.4.2 JDK, SableVM, gij).

As this is the case, would it not make sense to add the following to
the /usr/bin/eclipse script?
    -VM /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/java

Cheers
-- 
Thomas Fogwill <tfogwill@csir.co.za>


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