Eclipse & Java 1.5

[Adam Vande More]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Alex Huth <a.huth at tmr.net> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I want to change my laptop system from Debian to FreeBSD. After installing
> 8.0
> RC2 in a virtual machine i have tried to install eclipse and changed the
> Java
> version in the makefile to 1.5, but it still want to install the 1.6 jdk.
>
> I need the 1.5 version for several reasons, for example VPN account.
>
> How can i solve the problem? Is java 1.5 also available if i install it on
> AMD64? On debian this is a Problem.
>
> Thx
>
> Alex
>
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Does /usr/ports/java/jdk15 not work for you?

Can you not install both and tell eclipse to use the 15 jdk?

You can try editing /usr/ports/java/eclipse/Makefile to JAVA_VERSION=   1.5
but I have no idea if that will work.

jdk15 does work on amd64

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Adam Vande More