Re: eclipse on ppc linux again

On Thu, 2005-21-04 at 19:04 +0200, Reto Gantenbein wrote:
> hi everybody
> 
> because i want to use eclipse on my debian ibook, i read the few mails 
> on your site and the wiki article about using eclipse 3.x on a linux ppc
> installation. there it's written, that after installing sablevm, the 
> eclipse binaries were used for further installation. unfortunately there
> doesn't exist any for ppc linux plattform. then i found two people who 
> compiled eclipse on ppc thereselfs 
> (http://sablevm.org/lists/sablevm-user/2004-December/000088.html & 
> http://fdik.org/eclipse-ppc/). but how i understood, they both did 
> compile it against ibm-java. i tried them both with your startup-script
> but they gave me both quite the same following error:

Compiling Eclipse against any free JVM requires quite some magic at the
moment, but versions compiled with non-free Java will work just fine.

Did you look at:

		http://sablevm.org/wiki/Eclipse ?

You need a special startup script to start Eclipse.  The "eclipse"
binary included in Eclipse tar/zip will not work.

Note that Eclipse 3.1 M3 and newer have serious problems with
(I think) error handling in SWT->GTK bridge and they might crash
occasionally.  But using Eclipse 3.1M1 is just fine.

You might also want to look at how to debug your programs with SableVM
and Eclipse at:

		http://sablevm.org/wiki/Debug

HTH,

			Grzegorz B. Prokopski


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