Bug#491334: Reopen eclipse ignores vmargs in eclipse.ini

Niels Thykier niels at thykier.net
Sun Apr 11 15:27:19 UTC 2010


> Eclipse ignores ignores -vmargs in eclipse.ini and patch that
> incorporates ./eclipse/eclipserc is not applied.

-vmargs works fine for me in my (/etc/)eclipse.ini. Please post your
eclipse.ini, so we can have a look at it (please gzip it or so, so it is
not inlined the mail, it makes it difficult to spot mistakes like
trailing spaces).

> I do not think how this patch could work since the -vmargs (and
> consequent vm options) must be the last argument on command line and
> there is no way how to inject parameters into eclipse via environment
> variables.
>=20
> I propose that ./eclipse/eclipserc should be changed to=20
> ./eclipse/eclipsevm and should contain just the vm arguments.
>=20
> The=20
> $HOME/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_<version>_<id>/configuration/config=
=2Eini
> will be used for standalone eclipse arguments (=3D non vmargs).
>=20

The wrapper script handling ~/.eclipse/eclipserc was broken. We are
trying to remove the remaining pieces of the wrapper that are
(unfortunately) still required for sane defaults/operation.
  But I have no interest in reviving parts of that wrapper if I can
avoid it! Quite a few bugs closed in the 3.5.2 upload are due to the
removal of that overcomplicated wrapper.


> FYI
> dpkg -l
> ii  eclipse                               3.5.2-2                  =20
> Extensible Tool Platform and Java IDE
> ii  eclipse-jdt                           3.5.2-2                  =20
> Eclipse Java Development Tools (JDT)
> ii  eclipse-pde                           3.5.2-2                  =20
> Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE
> ii  eclipse-platform                      3.5.2-2                  =20
> Eclipse platform without plug-ins to develop
> ii  eclipse-platform-data                 3.5.2-2                  =20
> Eclipse platform without plug-ins to develop
> ii  eclipse-plugin-cvs                    3.5.2-2                  =20
> Eclipse Team Integration (CVS support)
> ii  eclipse-rcp                           3.5.2-2                  =20
> Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP)
>=20
> Tomas
>=20

~Niels

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