Eclipse et. al. fail to build from source
Steven Susbauer
steven at too1337.com
Sat Aug 1 00:50:14 UTC 2009
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.
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