Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 11:28:10 -0800 (PST) From: mdh <mdh_lists@yahoo.com> To: freebsd mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Spiros Papadopoulos <spap13@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: Java and FreeBSD Message-ID: <410306.67693.qm@web56805.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <dab71e150811031026w5d6872f2gf46937e923ba5a62@mail.gmail.com>
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--- On Mon, 11/3/08, Spiros Papadopoulos <spap13@googlemail.com> wrote:
> From: Spiros Papadopoulos <spap13@googlemail.com>
> Subject: Java and FreeBSD
> To: "freebsd mailing list" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 1:26 PM
> Hi,
>
> It is now more than eight months that i am not able to use
> FreeBSD. FreeBSD
>
> version 6.1 was the last.
>
> Back then trying to work with Eclipse and java on FreeBSD
> was quite tricky.
>
> Can anyone please tell me what the current status is? For
> example can i use
>
> ports to install everything and start working with Eclipse
> straight away...?
> Or
>
> is Linux a better option?
>
> What versions of FreeBSD and Eclipse would you recommend?
> Please feel free
>
> to provide with as much information as you want.
My advice is to install the following ports in the following order:
java/jdk16
java/eclipse-devel
eclipse-devel worked much better for me than did java/eclipse. I also had trouble without getting jdk16 installed first. It's been a while now, so I'm not exactly sure what all, but I think if you install those ports in that order, Eclipse will work for you. You may also want to make a symlink from /usr/local/eclipse to /usr/local/eclipse-devel - this allows the Eclipse plugin ports to install properly. Without it, they will not. I've got several (Perl, Ruby, and a couple of others) installed from ports against eclipse-devel and they work fine once that symlink is in place.
- mdh
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