From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC71138A1F for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 22:20:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3F0CE0C0C; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 22:20:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B9BC4E0BF1 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 22:20:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from newlap-wireless.localdomain (ool-45787f94.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.127.148]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s3HMKC6s015159 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:20:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: by newlap-wireless.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9014FA94F2; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:20:12 -0400 (EDT) From: gottlieb@nyu.edu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] using eclipse with java References: <87d2gghr6u.fsf@nyu.edu> <20140417223517.03c85cb3@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:20:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20140417223517.03c85cb3@gentoo.org> (Tom Wijsman's message of "Thu, 17 Apr 2014 22:35:17 +0200") Message-ID: <87fvlbfvj7.fsf@nyu.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Archives-Salt: 62405fb5-6672-40a5-9598-f058728a4a12 X-Archives-Hash: d9bff706314442df2b5c99cf319838b0 On Thu, Apr 17 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:11:05 -0400 > gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote: > >> I have not yet merged eclipse-sdk. Must I merge this? The only >> version in the main tree is masked and it brings in 83! packages. > > One Does Not Simply Compile Eclipse[1]. > > There is dev-util/eclipse-sdk-bin in several overlays[2][3], which > provide a pre-compiled version of that what you are exactly looking for; > but if you want to build eclipse-sdk from source, you're on your own[4]. > Unless you get a team together; ping me, then I'll share a WIP version. > > [1] http://thume.ca/2013/03/29/contributing-to-eclipse/ > [2] http://gpo.zugaina.org/dev-util/eclipse-sdk-bin > [3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Layman > [4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325271#c159 I see. Thanks for setting me straight. I had it wrong. When I did an emerge --pretend eclipse-sdk I received a note that a recent binary is in the java-overlay. Is that what you would recommend? I have used layman in the past for gnome. thanks, allan