Re: comparing x86 and powerpc laptops
On Mit, 2003-04-09 at 18:44, christophe barbe wrote:
> Le mer 09/04/2003 à 12:21, Geert Uytterhoeven a écrit :
> > On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, christophe barbe wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 12:57:27PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > On 9 Apr 2003, florian wrote:
> > > > > another criteria for me is also: gotta work well with eclipse and other
> > > > > java stuff. its possible to compile eclipse by hand to run on debian ppc.
> > > > > but it works kinda buggy..
> > > >
> > > > apt-get install eclipse?
> > >
> > > ~$ apt-cache policy eclipse
> > > W: Unable to locate package eclipse
> > >
> > > It's not in the powerpc archive as dar as I know.
> >
> > Probably not yet. The Debian package was announced on Debian Weekly last week.
> > You can always try apt-source, though.
>
> I am afraid the picture is not as good.
> You can check for example:
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/eclipse.html
>
> I have not tried it from source but it should be a reason why only linux
> x86 package is available from eclipse.org.
its possible to compile eclipse (or better the launcher and swt) on
debian ppc.. after all its abit buggy though..
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