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
