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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
