On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 16:03 +0100, Tim Lauridsen wrote: > On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 20:24 -0800, Hoffmann wrote: > > > > Hi Dan, > > > > Defenitely, something seems to be wrong with Eclipse. > > If I install the Eclipse platform (and their > > dependences, of course) either from Eclipse website or > > from yum, when I try running it, I allways get the > > following error: > > > > "An error has occurred. See the log file > > /home/hoffmann/workspace/.metadata/.log." > > > > Please, see part of that log file below: > > > > eclipse.buildId=M20050929-0840 > > java.version=1.5.0_06 > > java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc. > > BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86_64, WS=gtk, > > NL=en_US > > Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch > > x86_64 This is something specific to the Sun JVM. I have heard of this before but I can't remember how one fixes it. It's something to do with java.library.path, IIRC. > Eclipse in FC4 has been compiled with gcj java compiler and is a > native application, not Java Bytecode as the Normal Eclipse. Sort of. What we ship with Fedora is both the bytecode *and* corresponding native shared object files. This allows gij to use the .sos and other JREs to use the bytecode. > If you just install Java 1.5, then you will mess up the gcj java > evironment (See the FC4 Release Notes). There is much confusion surrounding the best way to install Sun's JVM/JDK on Fedora. IMHO, using the JPackage setup to allow your JREs to be alternatives-managed is the best way to go. There are other ways, of course, including installing the Sun binary blobs into /opt or elsewhere. This has been covered many times on the list and Tim points out one of the many sites regarding this. Andrew
