On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:32:35PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:34:18AM +0200, Michael Koch wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:55:37PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
>
> > > When I run elipse, it does a probe for VMs, finding only
> > > /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj. OK, so I went into preferences to add the sun
> > > JRE. I add the JRE, but it doesn't "stick": when I go back into
> > > preferences, it is no longer listed. There's an exception in the log
> > > (attached). Anyone got any ideas?
> >
> > It uses the search order written down in /etc/eclipse/java_home.
> > /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj is the first entry there.
> >
> > To start with another VM as user you should use the -vm argument:
> >
> > eclipse -vm /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj
>
> I can try this. However, to be clear: I'm not so concerned about
> which vm is chosen by default. I'm concerned that I cannot edit
> eclipse preferences.
>
>
> > > !SESSION 2005-09-05 22:38:22.931
> > > -----------------------------------------------
> > > eclipse.buildId=I20050627-1435
> > > java.fullversion=GNU libgcj 4.0.2 20050821 (prerelease) (Debian 4.0.1-6)
> > > BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86, WS=gtk, NL=en_US
> > > Framework arguments:
> > > Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86
> > >
> > > !ENTRY org.eclipse.update.configurator 2005-09-05 22:38:24.899
> > > !MESSAGE /usr/local/lib/eclipse/plugins is not a valid plugins directory.
> > >
> > > !ENTRY org.eclipse.core.runtime 4 2 2005-09-05 22:39:16.426
> > > !MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in:
> > > "org.eclipse.core.runtime".
> > > !STACK 0
> > > gnu.xml.dom.ls.DomLSException: illegal XML character U+0
> > > at gnu.xml.dom.ls.DomLSParser.doParse(org.w3c.dom.ls.LSInput)
> > > (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
> > > at gnu.xml.dom.ls.DomLSParser.parse(org.w3c.dom.ls.LSInput)
> > > (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
> > > at gnu.xml.dom.DomDocumentBuilder.parse(org.xml.sax.InputSource)
> > > (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
> > > at
> > > org.eclipse.jdt.internal.launching.VMDefinitionsContainer.parseXMLIntoContainer(java.io.InputStream)
> > > (/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins.gcj/org.eclipse.jdt.launching_3.1.0.jar.so)
>
> > This is a known limitation in the current GCJ in unstable.
>
> Err, but you do realize this makes eclipse unusable? And not just for
> preferences. After sending my email last night, I tried simply
> importing some sources and editing the code. I would regularly get
> exceptions like the above ("illegal XML character U+0") when trying to
> do simple things like open a class using CTRL-SHIFT-T.
>
> Is it really this unusable for everyone?
this will be fixed soon. Its only in GCJ 4.0. All other VMs work just fine.
Michael
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