Bug#369950: [Tom.Marble@Sun.COM: Re: Bug#369950: eclipse could is not search in the right place for sun-java5-jdk]

[Jeroen van Wolffelaar]

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Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 17:40:47 -0500
From: Tom Marble <Tom.Marble at Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Bug#369950: eclipse could is not search in the right place for
 sun-java5-jdk
To: Emil Nowak <emil5 at go2.pl>, 370296 at bugs.debian.org
Cc: debian-java at lists.debian.org
Message-id: <44B185EF.7070107 at sun.com>

All:

Please note that

1. The Eclipse packaging predates the recent changes
   in java-common (>= 0.25) which is part of a broader
   Debian Java Policy initiative to harmonize
   access to multiple implementations [1].
   At some point the Eclipse packaging should simply
   start with /usr/bin/java (assuming there is at a least
   one implementation available as determined by
   adding Depends: java-runtime ).

2. The following fix to the current eclipse packaging has been
   tested and works (if *no other implementations are
   installed*):

tmarble at techno 13% diff -Naur eclipse-3.1.2{-pristine,}/debian/extra/java_home
--- eclipse-3.1.2-pristine/debian/extra/java_home       2006-07-07 19:46:33.000000000 -0500
+++ eclipse-3.1.2/debian/extra/java_home        2006-07-09 16:23:16.000000000 -0500
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@

 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj
 /usr/lib/kaffe/pthreads
+/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun
 /usr/lib/j2se/1.5
 /usr/lib/j2se/1.4
 /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-ibm
tmarble at techno 14%

3. Note if one of the two implementations is installed on
   the system which precede Sun Java (in java_home above)
   then Eclipse will start with the first one it finds.
   In that case the work around is to add the following
   to ~/.eclipse/eclipserc
   JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun

4. Even in the case listed in #3 Sun Java can still be used
   to edit and run Java programs by doing the following:

   a. open the Window | Preferences dialog
   b. Expand the tree > Java > Editor > Installed JREs
   c. click Add...
      select the /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun directory


Allow my to respectfully propose the patch in #2 be applied
to the current Eclipse packaging to close this bug.
Then, separately, as Debian Java Policy evolves the Eclipse
packaging should be updated to take those conventions
into account.

Regards,

--Tom

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365408
    http://wiki.debian.org/Java/Draft

P.S. Please note, also, that I have just updated the documentation
     for installing the Sun JRE on Debian:
       https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net/debian.html
     as well as installing the Sun JDK on Debian:
       https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net/debian-dev.html



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