building eclipse

[Chuck Robey]

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Adam Vande More wrote:
> Chuck Robey wrote:
>> I went to try for eclipse, after I installed the Linux Blackdown, but the
>> eclipse port seems to be inflexibly requiring me to install the Sun
>> Java 1.4,
>> so, is there any way that you're aware of to make it like the
>> Blackdown (version
>> from ports)??
>>
>> Maybe, I could create a link from the Blackdown's install dir and the
>> install
>> dir that the Sun JDK uses??
>>   
> I'm no expert, but you might try updating your ports.  My eclipse
> install required 1.5+ native.

I have the latest, I can see why I was fooled, because the port's instructions
to me (when it failed to build, wanting me to do a lot oof downloading) was to
download a huge Sun tarball, but I see from reading the makefile that it's just
there so that the BSD native one can be built (requiring Java to build Java
seems to me to be confirmation of insanity).  The URL given in the port isn't
any good, but I got a hint a little while ago on this list about a URL for
downloading a binary for it.

I only need one question answered before I download it, and that's if the
version will work in FreeBSD-8.0-current (remember that they changed the
threading algorithm a small count of months ago), I need to know if it will work
for my system.

OR if I could fake it out with the Blackdown port somehow, if I can't use the
FreeBSD Java binaries.
> 

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