According to "The Eclipse Program Launcher"
http://www.eclipse.org/swt/launcher.html
"In general, the settings of the config file are expected to be
overriden by the command line.
* the -vmargs from the command line replaces in its entirety the
-vmargs from the config file."
So this isn't a *bug* as such, but it is certainly behaviour likely to
confuse end-users because it isn't clearly documented up-front in the
Ubuntu "eclipse" package notices.
Most Eclipse users are going to expect the Eclipse documentation to be
the place to look, and not pick-up easily on this over-ride
ramification.
According to the Debian "man eclipse" the file
"/home/<user>/.eclipse/eclipserc" should be used but there is no
indication of *what* to put in it.
>From reading "/usr/bin/eclipse" where it includes the file as a shell
script it seems the file should contain bash shell statements, for
example:
VMARGS="-Xms40m -Xmx512m"
This should be clearly documented in the man-pages, and also up front in
the eclipse package installer notes, not least because many developers
are needing to increase the heap and Permanent Generation (PermGen)
memory settings to cope with the number of class definitions loaded by
the Eclipse environment. E.g:
VMARGS="-Xms40m -Xmx512m -XX:PermSize=128M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M"
and may believe that adding these values to eclipse.ini has dealt with
the issue.
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vmargs in eclipse.ini ignored
https://launchpad.net/bugs/83779
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