Eclipse et. al. fail to build from source

[Steven Susbauer]

On Jul 31, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Thufir wrote:

> I don't understand why Eclipse (and Netbeans, and Tomcat) sucks so  
> badly
> on Linux in general and Ubuntu specifically in relation to package
> management.  It seems that to install any of these apps it's best to
> download binaries outside of a package manager, which is a sorry  
> state of
> affairs.
>
> Apparently:
>
> "Replace occurances of default-java with java-6-openjdk. Fixes FTBFS."
> http://www.mail-archive.com/karmic-changes@lists.ubuntu.com/msg03735.html
>
>
> That sounds like a kludge, and a bad one.  So, when Java 7 comes out,
> what then?  I suppose, as a user, I could care less so long as it  
> works...
>
>
> -Thufir
>

Did you look at the changelog? It appears the default-java path is no  
longer created, so this fix is needed because the directory is non  
existent.

When Java 7 comes out it will be modified. It's not likely it would be  
put into Karmic after release anyway.