Hi Andrew (moved to main classpath list for the benefit of other
packagers/runtime hackers),
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 11:16 -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote:
On Sat, 2006-08-07 at 22:28 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
Maybe Andrew knows since he has been
packaging eclipse 3.2 for Fedora.
Unfortunately I don't. If someone could test with RC7 and final and
give differences in output with the flags mentioned at [1] turned on, I
can find some time to look and/or talk to upstream.
As it turned out I resolved all the problems with Eclipse 3.2 final this
weekend. It seems to work perfectly for me against GNU Classpath CVS.
This is really good since I thought that should be an informal release
goal for the next snapshot.
The 2 issues were:
1) The eclipse 'launcher binary' seems to try to do some nasty trickery
to get the runtime to link against some mozilla-gtk-embedded library
which completely breaks the welcome screen. Workaround is to just launch
the statup.jar directly.
2) The bundled ICU has a nasty big involving SoftReferences as explained
by the Cacao hackers. Making sure you have a fixed icu installed makes
all your problems with unexplained exceptions go away. See
http://c1.complang.tuwien.ac.at/cacaowiki/EclipseIcuBug
Strangely enough I have no problem with the builders at all. I used to
have all kinds of weird recompiles going on with earlier versions. But
now I could do a full fakejdk/Hello World bootstrap using jamvm and
classpath CVS following
http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathHackingWithEclipse
Even using the plugin manager to install the CDT and Subversive SVN
plugins worked smoothly so I could also checkout and build cacao with
it! But I know others have had some troubles with the builders in 3.2:
http://metastatic.org/text/Concern/2006/07/06/getting-closer/
Thanks for pushing Eclipse 3.2 and some of the Callisto components into
Fedora Core 6 (test releases) http://overholt.ca/wp/?p=56 that will be a
nice boost for Eclipse, GNU Classpath and GCJ. Unfortunately I don't
have a rawhide installation around so I can not easily test this, but if
others can we can try to make this perfect for the final FC6. What is
the easiest way to get a working Rawhide setup?
Cheers,
Mark
[1]
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=111957#c5
