Bug 179141 – eclipse > 3.3M5 not launch the problem is "/usr/bin/run-java-tool"

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Nili 2007-05-19 19:20:40 UTC]

eclipse launch fails with:

* run-java-tool is not available for sun-jdk-1.5 on i686
* IMPORTANT: some Java tools are not available on some VMs on some architectures

My fix for this problem:

Edit "run-java-tool" and add

# my dirty fix
if  [ "$tool" = "run-java-tool" ]; then
   tool="java"
fi

under line "tool=$(basename $0)".


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2007-05-19 19:31:03 UTC]

I don't see any such version in Portage?

betelgeuse@pena /usr/portage/dev-util/eclipse-sdk $ eshowkw
Keywords for dev-util/eclipse-sdk:

         |                           s     |
         |                 p         p     |
         |                 p         a   x |
         |                 c         r   8 |
         |                 -         c   6 | u
         | a a             m p     s -   - | n
         | l m   h i m m   a p s   p f   f | u s
         | p d a p a 6 i p c c 3   a b x b | s l
         | h 6 r p 6 8 p p o 6 9 s r s 8 s | e o
         | a 4 m a 4 k s c s 4 0 h c d 6 d | d t
---------+---------------------------------+------
3.0.1-r3 |   ~           +             +   |   3
3.0.2-r1 |   ~           ~             ~   |
---------+---------------------------------+------
3.1.2-r3 |   ~           ~             ~   |   3.1
---------+---------------------------------+------
3.2.1-r1 |   +           +             +   |   3.2
3.2.1-r2 |   +           ~             +   |

[Comment 2 Nili 2007-05-19 19:55:17 UTC]

Sorry! Is an download version from eclipse.org.
Portage version are unfortunately to old. Eclipse has change the
launcher.

http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.3M5-200702091006/eclipse-news-M5.html

[Comment 3 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2007-05-19 20:12:53 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Sorry! Is an download version from eclipse.org.
> Portage version are unfortunately to old. Eclipse has change the
> launcher.
> 

What do you expect us to do about? We have no control over the upstream launchers. If want it to work out of the box on Gentoo submit a bug report to https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/

[Comment 4 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2007-05-19 20:22:53 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> 
> What do you expect us to do about? We have no control over the upstream
> launchers. If want it to work out of the box on Gentoo submit a bug report to
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/
> 

Also if you do that please add the url to that report to this and I would suggest providing upstream a patch because I doubt the Eclipse developers are running Gentoo.

[Comment 5 Nili 2007-05-20 11:29:59 UTC]

I found a bug report ID: 176021.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=176021

[Comment 6 Josh Nichols (RETIRED) 2007-05-22 20:20:25 UTC]

I remember working with a user who ended up filing the upstream bug. There really isn't much we can do about upstream fixing it.

What we can do though, is check if it's being invoked as 'run-java-tool', and give an error that it should be invoked by a symlink, and not directly.

[Comment 7 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2007-07-08 15:01:48 UTC]

*** Bug 184582 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 8 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2007-07-08 15:02:25 UTC]

Reopening to mark as RESOLVED UPSTREAM.