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From: gottlieb@×××.edu
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] using eclipse with java
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 01:12:54
Message-Id: 87tx9dc512.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] using eclipse with java by Tom Wijsman
1 On Mon, Apr 28 2014, Tom Wijsman wrote:
2
3 > On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:08:18 -0400
4 > gottlieb@×××.edu wrote:
5 >
6 >> I get almost immediate segfaults.
7 >>
8 >> I type
9 >>
10 >> eclipse-bin-7.2
11 >>
12 >> It is basically empty (no projects).
13 >> I start a new project called "crash"
14 >> I then expand the project, select "src", right click and say "new
15 >> class" I call the class "Crash" and it give a correct skeleton
16 >> I go to the blank line above "public class Crash {" and start to type
17 >> "import java.util.scanner"
18 >>
19 >> I get as far as "import java." then it pops up a window with
20 >> completions and segfaults. It is quite repeatable. This happens on
21 >> a fresh install of eclipse-bin.
22 >
23 > Eclipse SDK 4.2 works here; strange that it doesn't for you, it might
24 > be some incompatibility perhaps with one or another library.
25 >
26 > Given that it is binary I'm unsure if this can be debugged...
27 >
28 >> Any advice? Should I look for a binary on the eclipse site?
29 >
30 > Yes, try one from the Eclipse site and put it in /opt/ (create symlinks
31 > in /usr/local/bin/); there is 4.3 there, I think we need to bump to
32 > that in the Java overlay at some point as 4.2 is getting somewhat old.
33
34 The one from the Eclipse is *MUCH* better. It works.
35 Thanks,
36 allan