Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running on Kaffe
Mine works on Sun's and Kaffes but does not work on Sable. Since the
compiled class files work on Sun's (for me), I suspect that the compile
created class files that are up to snuff, and JNI bindings that were
standards compliant. SableVM throws a bunch of NPE's however. I suspect
it's just a problem with the completeness of SableVM in Debian.
I look at it like this. I will make the best Eclipse packages I can. I
will make the VM used for them as configurable as possible, and I will
work with a primary FOSS VM to get Eclipse as installed by my end users to
work flawlessly. Beyond that, I will help when I have free time. If
Eclipse works on Kaffe (and Sun's as a reference), I will leave it at that
for now. The Sable fans are more than welcome to give it a go in the
meantime. Eventually I will get around to making it work on any VM under
the Sun (har har), but not just yet. ;) There's just a lot more work to be
done on these packages before I worry about that.
For those who haven't yet noticed, if you set CLASSPATH, it'll screw
Eclipse up. Don't set CLASSPATH. Right now, I'm fixing my wrapper script
to unset it... for the future I will be integrating my wrapper script
into the actual C based binary loader and submitting any changes upstream.
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 19:51:44 +0000, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Thomas Fogwill <tfogwill <at> csir.co.za> writes:
>
>> This build runs fine (so far) with kaffe, but does not run at all with
>> any other VMs: (tried: Sun's 1.4.2 JDK, SableVM, gij).
>>
>> As this is the case, would it not make sense to add the following to
>> the /usr/bin/eclipse script?
>> -VM /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/java
>
> Hm, I'd prefer to see it actually work with another VM, too, rather then tying
> it to a single VM. SableVM developers also reported success running Eclipse3 it,
> could you give the packages a try on it, as well?
>
> As Jerry said, he'll bug everyone else with bug reports, so I'm sure that
> whatever remaining small hacks are necessary for other VMs will happen quite
> quickly. I'm looking forward to Eclipse in main on several free runtimes!
>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
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