Hi, I figured this would be of interest to some here. I encourage those interested to work with the Eclipse Linux Tools project upstream. We're on #eclipse-linux on Freenode and our mailing list is:
https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxtools-dev Have a nice day, Andrew ----- Forwarded message from Andrew Overholt <[email protected]> ----- > Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:53:14 -0400 > From: Andrew Overholt <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Building the Eclipse SDK: eclipse-build 0.0.2 > > Hi, > > As some of you know, we've been working to make it easier for Linux > distributions to include the Eclipse SDK and additional plugins. One > obstacle to this was the building of the Eclipse SDK from scratch. Our > eclipse-build work is trying to help. > > We have released a preliminary version, not ready for consumption by > distributions, but ready for testing. We would greatly appreciate > feedback in the form of bugs (see [1]) of the build working or not > working on various distributions. Patches to fix any issues are even > more greatly appreciated :) > > To get started, download these two files ([2]): > > > http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/linuxtools/eclipse-build/eclipse-build-R0_0_2.tar.gz > > http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/linuxtools/eclipse-build/eclipse-I20090611-1540-fetched-src.tar.bz2 > > Untar the first one and in the expanded directory put a symlink to the > second one. Something like: > > tar zxf eclipse-build-R0_0_2.tar.gz > cd eclipse-build-R0_0_2 > ln -s ../eclipse-I20090611-1540-fetched-src.tar.bz2 > > Then, run the build.xml using an existing basebuilder > (R35_M7) checkout. If you don't have a basebuilder checkout, you can > get it like so: > > cd > cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/eclipse co -r R35_M7 \ > org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder > > Then run the eclipse-build build.xml with the basebuilder you just > checked out. Something like: > > cd eclipse-build-R0_0_2 > java -jar \ > > ~/org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.200.v20090429-1630.jar > \ > -consolelog -data $(pwd)/baseworkspace -Duser.home=$(pwd)/userhome \ > -application org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner \ > -DbaseBuilder=~/org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder \ > > -Dlauncher=~/org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.200.v20090429-1630.jar > \ > > -Declipse.pdebuild.scripts=~/org.eclipse.releng.basebuilder/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_3.5.0.v20090430-1420 > \ > -DbuildArch=x86_64 \ > 2>&1 | tee build.log > > Don't forget to change x86_64 to your architecture. > > Things to note: > > - this version uses the bundled copies of the dependencies like JUnit, > ant, etc. > - your JDK is assumed to be in "JPackage style" in /usr/lib/jvm/java > - your JDK is assumed to be 1.6 > - we haven't tested on non-x86{,_64} > - make sure you have ~3.5 GB disk space available > > Next steps we'd love help with: > > - bootstrapping the parts of basebuilder needed to run the build so we > don't need basebuilder :) [3] > - simplifying the launching [4] > - some sort of easy way to use the system JARs for the dependencies > (just over-writing them with symlinks will work) [5] > - building and running the tests [6] > - automatically detecting the host architecture [7] > > These and our other open bugs are listed here: > > http://preview.tinyurl.com/eclipse-build-openbugs > > Thanks, > > Andrew > > [1] > http://preview.tinyurl.com/eclipse-build-bug > Please include "[eclipse-build]" in the bug's summary. > > [2] > I hope that the files have propagated to mirrors by the time you read > this. md5sums: > > 2602a3fae7cbf28986b97f46aa706284 eclipse-I20090611-1540-fetched-src.tar.bz2 > 5794e727e05b7efaf9141d959ecc96ee eclipse-build-R0_0_2.tar.gz > > [3] > https://bugs.eclipse.org/214909 > https://bugs.eclipse.org/280685 > > [4] > https://bugs.eclipse.org/280686 > > [5] > https://bugs.eclipse.org/280688 > > [6] > https://bugs.eclipse.org/281270 > > [7] > https://bugs.eclipse.org/281271 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
