On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 06:57:44AM +0100, Kai-Cheung Leung wrote: > Eclipse is a really powerful IDE for Java projects and I am thinking about > the possibility for backporting it to sarge by recompiling the source under > GCC 3.3 and the non-free j2sdk >= 1.4 (blackdown or IBM) and put the Eclipse > Sarge backport packages under sarge-backports/contrib (since j2sdk in > non-free) > > I have looked into debian/control.in and debian/rules. In debian/control.in, > unfortunately GCJ4.0 is in the fixed list under build-depends and I can't see > any mechanisms fin debian/rules which I can toggle for debian sarge backport > and regenerate the new control files for dependencies for the sarge-backport > (which is possible in openoffice.org-2.0.1-2) > > Is it still possible to backport Eclipse 3.1.1-8 to sarge-backports? If so, > what could we do to facilitate this backport?
GCJ 3.3 and 3.4 are too buggy to build/run Eclips 3.1.x. I have a semi-final patch on my hard disk that allows building and running Eclipse 3.1.x on Sarge with SUN JDK 1.4/1.5. When its done I will upload it to www.backports.org. To make this happen I need to upload some other backported packages too. E.g. a newer ant is needed as is available in Sarge. Another candidate is libtomcat5-java which is not available in Sarge at all. Cheers, Michael -- Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
