Re: Report from the Debian Java developers meeting at FOSDEM
How complex is the manual install for debian now?
I looked at the Redhat pages a while back but there were
just too many steps involved even before you try on a
debian system.
c
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 22:44, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the report!
>
> On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 16:54, Stefan Gybas wrote:
> > - Native compilation
> >
> > Mark Wielaard and Tom Tromey showed a natively
> > compiled version of Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org)
> > using gcj. Arnaud and I talked to them about packaging
> > natively compiled software but this still requires
> > patches for gcj so this is not yet an option for
> > Debian. It will of course be interesting after the
> > release of sarge but let's first see how well this
> > works in the next release of Fedora/Red Hat.
>
> To my defense I must say that I did the demo on a Debian
> system. But indeed I build the whole thing on a Red Hat
> (9) system with a patched gcj-ssa. The rpms were
> converted to debs for the demo though since I didn't want
> to put a non-Debian system on my laptop.
>
> Hopefully the gcj 3.4 release will be able to run Eclipse
> interpreted through gij out of the box (that is not very
> fast, but not as slow as you would think). That doesn't
> solve the build issue though. It is a bit frustrating
> that we have all this working with CVS versions and
> special branches of the various projects. I understand
> perfectly well that you cannot package such a hodgepodge
> for Debian. Hope you weren't offended by my teasing that
> Red Hat gets it, but Debian doesn't. They do take a
> couple of short cuts at the moment which aren't
> appropriate in the long run, especially not for Debian.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
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