Re: [gentoo-java] eclipse on ppc

[Joshua Nichols <nichoj@gentoo.org>]

David Gurvich wrote:
> I have used the ebuild from the java-experimental overlay,
> eclipse-sdk-3.2_rc2.  Aside from having to modify the java5home variable
> manually it compiled cleanly.
>   
What did you have to modify it too?
> My problem concerns ibm-jdk-bin.  On ppc systems the only real option is
> ibm-jdk-bin.  If I start eclipse with either 1.4.2 or 1.5.0 as the system jvm
> eclipse will crash soon after attempting to access the menus.  If I use the
> following script
>   

Please try to catch the exact error and logs if possible.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/kde/3.5/lib
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> /usr/bin/java-config -s 1
> /usr/bin/eclipse-3.2 -vmargs -Xmx256M
> /usr/bin/java-config -s 2
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Eclipse opens and runs with no problems.
> The only part which makes a difference is the java-config -s 1, which sets
>  the system jvm to gcj-4.1.0.  Do you know what the problem or solution may
>  be?
>
>   
Any particular reason why you'd need to add the kde lib to 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH? I would think it would already be there.

You might want to use the name of the vm, instead of a number, just in 
case the number changes.
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