Eclipse 3.3.1 build

[Mike Bowie]

Jonas Wolz wrote:
> Mike Bowie wrote:
>> One of the 3.3.0 port version we had built and ran quite happily with
>> jdk1.5, but we've not seen the same success with 3.3.1 so far.
>>
>> I may have a poke at it this weekend and see what we can wrangle.  For
>> now the eclipse-devel port is tied to jdk1.6 and the upcoming 3.3.1
>> version will most likely be also, but we'll see what we can do to get
>> 1.5 support in there in the near future.
> 
> Thanks, I really appreciate your efforts. Without them I would probably need
> to boot into Windows (or install Linux) to use Eclipse.
> 
> What actually puzzles me a bit is the fact that although according to the
> official build instructions JDK 1.6 is required (and the build.xml uses 1.6
> as target version) the builds from eclipse.org run happily with Java 1.5
> (or even on Java 1.4 according to
> http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/moreinfo/jre.php ).
> So obviously the guys at eclipse.org seem to use their own modified build
> process...
> 
> Anyway, thanks again for your work,
> Jonas
> 
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Good morning Jonas,

It looks like Ken had a bit of a poke at it last night, which some success.

Once something workable comes together, it will most likely be posted 
here before it hits ports.

It is a bit puzzling how eclipse's builds to run across jdk versions... 
perhaps one of the guru's will come up with something genius, but it's 
beyond me. ;-)  instructions.html makes it seem like an elementary 
process to build with 1.5, but I think it might be a bit outdated as 
there are a few other areas which require patches for it to work.

Keep an eye on the list for progress. :-D

Cheers,

Mike.