Fwd: eclipse with openjdk7 ?

[Ronald Klop]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:25:31 +0200, Любомир Григоров <nm.knife at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> ---------- Препратено съобщение ----------
> От: Любомир Григоров <nm.knife at gmail.com>
> Дата: 17 август 2011 00:25
> Тема: Re: eclipse with openjdk7 ?
> До: Thomas Gellekum <Thomas.Gellekum at gmx.de>
>
>
> I tried compiling eclipse with both default openjdk6 and openjdk7 in
> Makefile, fails both times. eclipse-devel fails with default Makefile,
> haven't tried changing it.
>
> I just want a working eclipse, I am using 8.2-STABLE
>
> What is the best way to get it up and running?

How hard do you want openjkd7. I would try to deinstall all eclipses and  
all jdk's and than install openjdk6 and eclipse (not eclipse-devel).

Ronald.



>
> The Java version used by Eclipse is currently hardcoded because it  
> doesn't
>> compile with all the (older) JDK6's out there. I guess nobody has tried  
>> to
>> use JDK7 to compile and run eclipse so far.
>>
>> You can easily try the "run" part: set JAVA_HOME in your environment to
>> /usr/local/openjdk7 and start the /usr/local/bin/eclipse (or  
>> eclipse-devel)
>> script.
>>
>> As to "compile": set JAVA_VERSION to 1.6+ in eclipse-devel/Makefile (I
>> don't think this will work with the main eclipse port, as it is still at
>> 3.6.2) and rebuild. If OpenJDK7 is your default Java version, it should  
>> be
>> picked up automatically.
>>
>> Note that you can always specify a JRE for your own projects in the Java
>> preferences. JDT support for JDK7 features will arrive with 3.7.1 (due  
>> end
>> of September, I think).
>>
>> tg
>>
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