Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:00:42 -0700 From: Mike Bowie <mbowie@buzmo.com> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: freebsd-eclipse@Freebsd.org Subject: Re: eclipse 3.3.0 Message-ID: <46E1BBFA.5000501@buzmo.com> In-Reply-To: <20070907204747.GA48113@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <46E1946A.8010602@buzmo.com> <20070907204747.GA48113@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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Greg Lewis wrote: > G'day Mike, > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 11:11:54AM -0700, Mike Bowie wrote: > >> First up, thanks to Ken and Dan for getting this port started... nice >> work chaps! >> >> I've been playing with Ken's eclipse-europa-dan port for the last couple >> of days and haven't had a lot of joy so far... it might just be my >> environments, but here are the notes from the two hosts I've tested with: >> >> - Ant seems to be unable 'exec' under jdk1.6.0... a separate issue, but >> certainly the one I've burnt most of my time on! >> > > Try updating to the latest jdk16 port. It has fixes for problems with > exec() which may provide some joy here. > > >> - After installing diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_6 from ports, I'm getting ~ 70 >> errors in the build. This is where I'm at now, sifting through and >> seeing what's failing where. >> > > I've seen mentioned elsewhere that Eclipse 3.3.0 requires JDK 1.6. If that > is the case then you're not going to get anywhere with the Diablo JDK since > its based on JDK 1.5. > > Greg, I'm cvsup'ing as we speak, will re-post the results. As for Eclipse requiring 1.6, this is true... there are instructions in the build for compiling on platforms without support for 1.6 though. However, in my excitement, I did neglect to make the requisite changes. (Genius!) Will hopefully have some news on both these points shortly. Sincerest thanks, Mike.
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