Building eclipse-3.1M5a SDK under YDL-4

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

I have managed to build the latest milestone version of eclipse:

	http://www.eclipse.org


Sequence:
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(0) Acquire the necessary build tools

* download and install IBM's java-1.42 for PPC, IBMJava2-ppc-142

	http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux140/

* download and install ant-1.6.2

	http://ant.apache.org/

* set environment for java and ant
I have permanently added java and ant to my environment by adding
initialization scripts to /etc/profile.d [see attachments ant.sh and
java.sh].  These files modify the PATH and set appropriate HOME
environment variables.

(1) Download the source build [~ 57MB]

	eclipse-sourceBuild-srcIncluded-3.1M5a.zip

(2) Unpack in a work area using "unzip"

	Note: Building eclipse will require about 618MB of space.

(3) Edit two files
some paths and a library name are incorrect for YDL:

     ./plugins/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/gtk/library/build.sh
     ./plugins/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/gtk/library/make_linux.mak

[see attached patches]

(4) At the top level of the source tree, run

	sh build -os linux -ws gtk -arch ppc > Build.log 2>&1 &

(5) Go do something else for a while

(6) Check the results

If all went well:

* Build.log will end with something like

        BUILD SUCCESSFUL
        Total time: 19 minutes 41 seconds

Specific details of the build will be found in ./compilelog.txt

* ./result directory should contain a very large file

        -rw-r--r--  1 root root 91573750 Feb 28 12:15
        org.eclipse.sdk-I20050219-1500-linux.gtk.ppc.zip

(7) Rename the result archive
The result archive is *NOT* a zip file; it is a compressed tar file.
Rename it so you won't forget,

	org.eclipse.sdk-I20050219-1500-linux.gtk.ppc.tar.gz

(8) Install the result tar ball
Unpacking the tar ball will generate a tree rooted at ./eclipse. The
tree is about 112MB in size.

On my machine I unpacked the tar ball under /usr/local, which created
/usr/local/eclipse.

(9) Try it out...
	/usr/local/eclipse/eclipse

If all goes well you will see the splash screen followed [eventually] by
a dialog box allowing you to define the location of your workspace.

(10) Read the fine manual  / Try the tutorial


-Joseph

-- 
joseph_sacco[at]comcast[dot]net
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