patch IDEA 3 to work with jdk 1.4.1-p3

Alexey Zelkin phantom at FreeBSD.org.ua
Tue Apr 15 04:57:29 PDT 2003


hi,

Please try unpatched IDEA3 with addition of '-Didea.no.jdk.check=true'
flag to java command line and let me know result.

ps: yep, debugging and profiling supposed to be problematic areas -- i
did not have time to dig into them yet.

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 06:41:42PM +0200, Felix von Delius wrote:
> Here's a brief hint how IntelliJ IDEA 3.0.3 can be patched to work on
> FreeBSD:
> 
> After installation, IntelliJ IDEA 3.0.3 complains about not running on
> "1.4.1_O2" (the linux-jdk crashes). The problem is that the great
> FreeBSD Java 1.4.1 patchset 3 does have "1.4.1-p3" instead of
> "1.4.1_O2" in the java.version system property.
> 
> The patch is easy: just patch the file
> ${IDEA_HOME}/lib/idea.jar: Inside there is the file
> com/intellij/idea/Main.class where the string "1.4.1_O2" has to be
> replaced by "1.4.1-p3".
> 
> I did it by unpacking idea.jar, patching the Main.class file (with
> Emacs hexl-mode) and building a new jar, but since the jar is
> uncompressed, it should be possible to patch it with any hex-editor
> (Emacs is not too fast in hexl-mode for long files).
> 
> IDEA works great, but debugging seems to be a problem.
> 
> btw: does debugging work with other IDEs (Eclipse?) or is it a problem
> of the jdk14 port?
> 
> cheers,
>  Felix
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