Eclipse-SDK masked?

coolcut · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 21 Location: Belgium

Does anybody know why the SDk is masked, I would like to emerge it but is doesn't seam to work.

BTW Does anybody have any experiences with eclipse?

Greetz

CoolCut

koala · Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 7:35 pm Post subject:

Last question first:

Eclipse rocks! Any questions? :-b

The Eclipse version in Portage is 2.0.2, if I remember well that caused me no end of troubles. M4 and esp. M5 work much better for me on my home system (2.0.2 was ok on my work computer, running under Windows), so I'd advise you to skip portage and download a newer version (binary one will do).

coolcut · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 21 Location: Belgium

Which binary did you use the GTk 2 or the motif one? And is there a difference between the two.

koala · Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2003 7:43 pm Post subject:

I use the GTK2 one. It brings you antialiased fonts and general wellbeing. Try acroread for a motif interface :-b

During the pre-m4 era, I tried to get the Motif solution to work, but gave up. I'd advise you to try the GTK2 build.

scawa · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 1:57 am Post subject:

Is no one keeping up the ebuild of Eclipse. What do I use to emerge Eclipse?

I've been using eclipse since it first came out and would love to use it with Gentoo.
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cederberg · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 2:16 pm Post subject:

The Eclipse 2.1 M4 ebuild is in portage. Just write:

sebster · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 3:27 pm Post subject:

I have had no end of trouble trying to run the GTK version of eclipse. Perhaps it is because I use GCC 3.2.1, I don't know. Also, when I installed it it upgraded GTK from major version 1 to 2, so I don't know if that breaks other stuff. Finally I emerged open-motif and now use the motif version, which does work fine.

The problems I had with the GTK version include it hanging every time a progress bar hit 100%, and not being able to select certain menu options in the project preferences window (for example clicking on any option there such as java build path did nothing whatsoever). I also had that it would complain that my ssh connection died when checking out a large project via CVS, but just doing a commandline cvs co always worked just fine.

I'm very curious as to how to get the GTK version to work.

Greetings,
Sebastiaan van Erk

scawa · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 5:25 pm Post subject:

Don't know how it works with Gentoo.

I had a Mandrake 9.0 implementation before I decided to try Gentoo. I had to download and rebuild the correct GTK and gcc libs, but after that, I used it almost exclusively for Java development on my Linux box with no problems except some standard exceptions thrown when doing multi threading...

I am slowly building my Gentoo box, using it as a learning tool to REALLY learn Linux; and to get a "clean" implementation of Linux without the gigabytes of extra crap that "commercial" distributions force you to use.

I will be trying to implement Eclipse on my box in a short while.

Oh by the way, I can implement the Blackdown version of SDK 1.4.1, but the Sun version is masked.... WTF, over?

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scawa · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 5:29 pm Post subject:

Oh, also, who maintains the ebuild of Eclipse.

I'm interested in building some ebuilds for certain pieces of software (some my own and some other open source Scientific Applications) and would like some info on how to prepare an ebuild to upload the Gentoo site.

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cederberg · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 6:46 pm Post subject:

Some random answers:

# Eclipse and GTK
Eclipse requires GTK+ 2.x, that is why it upgraded from version 1.x of gtk+.

# Eclipse hanging when displaying progress bars
This is an issue with Eclipse 2.0 on some Linux machines. It has been resolved as of version 2.1 M4 (i.e. pre-release 4 for 2.1). See comments in bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7634

# Development, ebuilds, etc.
Please see the Gentoo Linux Developer Documentation Resources section on the documentation page. It contains answers to most of your questions.

sebster · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 8:49 pm Post subject:

I understand that eclipse needs 2.x, but this _REMOVED_ the 1.x version of GTK from my system. From my understanding 1.x and 2.x are not compatible, so wouldn't this break the things that need 1.x? And is it possible to have both versions coexist?

Second of all, I installed Eclipse M5 and even downloaded and installed the latest integration build, but I just cannot get it to work using GTK. I keep having the same problems, except that the progress bar problem is indeed resolved. The openmotif version DOES however work, though I much prefer a working GTK version.

Greetings,
Sebastiaan van Erk

cederberg · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 9:56 pm Post subject:

Check this topic out: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=37711

As for the GTK-related issues with Eclipse, maybe you should report them at http://dev.eclipse.org/bugs/.

Problems with Eclipse under GTK+ is unfortunately not unheard of... (although it works for me)

sebster · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 10:32 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the pointers. As for the GTK errors, I think they've got to be Gentoo or GCC 3.2.1 specific, as my previous linux system (Debian) had no issues at all running Eclipse on GTK+. That system ran gcc 2.95.something.
Anyway, Debian was a mess and I like Gentoo MUCH better :-)

, just still a newbie with the portage system, don't really know how to install things double an stuff.

Greetings,
Seb*

scawa · Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 2:42 am Post subject:

I followed cederberg's instructions....

sebster · Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 6:36 am Post subject:

Did you copy paste the error message? Because if you did, then you mistyped SDK on your emerge command. Try it with any package that does not exist:

root@blauwoor(pts/5:517:0):~# emerge -p xgarblfalp

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies
emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy "xgarblfalp".

!!! Error calculating dependancies. Please correct.

Furthermore _ and - are different, so use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -s eclipse first, then type the name correctly.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan van Erk

scawa · Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 1:34 pm Post subject:

I didn't cut and paste, I typed BUT! :!:

Ah ha.... my eyesight from looking at a computer all day long is fading.... I didn't use the little squiggly "~", I used a "-" for the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. :oops:

When I get home this evening I'll re-do it.

Thanks very much.
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cederberg · Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 10:04 pm Post subject:

Yes, ~ can be hard to distinguish from - with some fonts. One could have wished that a simpler and more straightforward syntax had been available for unmasking ebuilds... (But it seems like someone already suggested that, so I'll have to think about some other way to improve Gentoo... :-)

scawa · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 12:48 pm Post subject:

Yeah. The Unix and therefore the Linux priesthood loves command line and obscure syntax (ever coded in COBOL with VI Editor!). But they are the ones who gave us this flexible product.... and what the heck... We now have wonderful Desktops... :wink:

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