Gregory Shimansky wrote: > Today while investigating the bug in HARMONY-2975 it appeared that > eclipse doesn't start on 64-bit Linux because os.arch property value is > em64t. The property is set in DRLVM source. Eclipse doesn't recognize > this architecture and failed to load SWT library. When this property > value is changed to x86_64 Eclipse runs ok. > > I think we should agree how to call 64-bit platform and I think it is > better to follow the same convention as is used in Linux, that is call > it x86_64 [1]. > > It may happen that for better compatibility or reuse of VM and classlib > code in other projects we'll need to change some other em64t and amd64 > mentions in the sources to x86_64. If there is no strong objection I > would like to change all sources to use only x86_64 instead of brand > names, and rename the files which contain em64t in their names. What do > you think? > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM64T#Industry_naming_conventions
+1. FWIW it likely depends on the version of Eclipse since em64t was recently added as an alias in the processor list for OSGi http://www2.osgi.org/Specifications/Reference In any case, let's agree on x86_64. Regards, Tim
