On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 14:01, Buchan Milne wrote: > Frederik Himpe wrote: > > On ma, 2003-01-20 at 11:40, Buchan Milne wrote: <...> > > Eclipse can be compiled with gcj: http://www.klomp.org/mark/gij_eclipse/ > > Have you tried this? I don't think it would be a good idea to include a > crashing eclipse at all, rather have a working one on the commercial CDs > IMHO. Never seen eclipse crash on windows, and it's actally about the > last tool I need to get some of our developers running on Mandrake, but > I will not get them running Mandrake if eclipse crashes ...
gjc compiling doesn't work for production uses yet, but eclipse runs fine on mandrake (once you have installed a JVM, of course). I run it on 8.2 at work, and cooker at home, using the latest sun JDKs. As fas as it using binary components: Yes, it does use either (static) motif or (dynamic) GTK2 native libraries, but that shouldn't make it impossible to package in an RPM, it just won't be a platform independent RPM. It might be a challenge to package eclipse so that it can be split up in base, motif and GKT RPMs so that the shared things won't need to be included twice, but even that might be possible. (Or it could be just the GTK version, which IMHO is vastly preferable over the motif interface...) Wouter -- "I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out." -- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)
