Re: installing eclipse 3.6 on ubuntu 10.10?

On Sun, 27 Mar 2011, Colin Law wrote:

On 27 March 2011 15:06, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
 i ran "strace eclipse" and attached the entire output to this note
(hope that's ok, it was only about 20K), but here's the tail end of
that output:

===== begin strace output =====
... snip ...
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7f0338655000
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR)                   = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
read(3, "java version \"1.6.0_20\"", 4096) = 23
read(3, "\nOpenJDK Runtime Environment (Ic"..., 4096) = 68
close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0x7f0338655000, 4096)            = 0
close(3)                                = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
wait4(5763, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 5763
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7f03386319d0) = 5777
wait4(5777, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 5777
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
shmctl(4882448, IPC_RMID, 0)            = 0
munmap(0x7f03377df000, 2166576)         = 0
exit_group(0)                           = ?
===== end =====

 at a glance, it *looks* like eclipse is checking the version of
java, then bailing based on what it finds, but i could be hopelessly
wrong.  everything else on this system is stock 10.10 packages -- it's
only eclipse and its dependencies i'm pulling from the PPA.

I wonder if Eclipse is happier with Sun Java. Google for ubuntu
install sun java should get you there if you want to try it. It might
be worth checking the Eclipse site to see if there is any reference to
this. Is there an Eclipse forum?

at this point, i'm resigned to accepting that this isn't going to
work, given that people in other forums are reporting precisely the
same symptoms, like here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3680250/how-to-upgrade-eclipse-from-3-5-galileo-to-3-6-helios-the-proper-way

if i get ambitious, i *could* install eclipse 3.6 independently from
the release tarballs but that's messier than i really want to get.

rday

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