Re: [gentoo-user] using eclipse with java

[gottlieb@nyu.edu]

On Mon, Apr 28 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:08:18 -0400
> gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote:
>  
>> I get almost immediate segfaults.
>> 
>> I type
>> 
>>   eclipse-bin-7.2
>> 
>> It is basically empty (no projects).
>> I start a new project called "crash"
>> I then expand the project, select "src", right click and say "new
>> class" I call the class "Crash" and it give a correct skeleton
>> I go to the blank line above "public class Crash {" and start to type
>> "import java.util.scanner"
>> 
>> I get as far as "import java." then it pops up a window with
>> completions and segfaults.  It is quite repeatable.  This happens on
>> a fresh install of eclipse-bin.
>
> Eclipse SDK 4.2 works here; strange that it doesn't for you, it might
> be some incompatibility perhaps with one or another library.
>
> Given that it is binary I'm unsure if this can be debugged...
>
>> Any advice?  Should I look for a binary on the eclipse site?
>
> Yes, try one from the Eclipse site and put it in /opt/ (create symlinks
> in /usr/local/bin/); there is 4.3 there, I think we need to bump to
> that in the Java overlay at some point as 4.2 is getting somewhat old.

The one from the Eclipse is *MUCH* better.  It works.
Thanks,
allan