http://eclipse.org/downloads/index.php Portage is 3.0.1-r2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 54821 [details] Working ebuild (modified version of 3.0.1-r2)
Created attachment 54822 [details, diff] Required patch With the attached ebuild ant patch I managed to build a working eclipse 3.0.2. System was amd64, sun-jdk-1.5.0_02, mozilla 1.7.6. I tried to make it work with 386 machines too.
That patch you posted removes the Equals method for strings, which seems to be used all over the place in the eclipse mozilla code. Are you just disabling the browser support (if so, there are easier ways to do it). I am confused by your patch.
I removed the Equals method because it doesn't compile. The nsEmbedString doesn't have an Equals method (see http://developer.mozilla.org/xpcom/api/nsEmbedString/ and the nsAString). The eclipse 3.1 has an ifdef around that method and the 3.1pre5 ebuild marks it as not available with the proper define. I also looked at the latest xpcom.cpp in eclipse CVS and they have removed the Equals method for strings altogether (http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse%20SWT%20Mozilla/common/library/xpcom.cpp?rev=1.21&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup) I was planning of emulating the Equals method with get()'s and plain memcmp but I first tried if the system would work without the method. Because it did work for me I left it like this.
Currently I have only tried browsing the help pages with mozilla which works nicely. If you can tell what else I should test to verify that the mozilla support works properly then I can try it too.
The javadoc view uses the embedded browser widget. When you're browsing the help pages, I don't think you're using an embedded browser, I think we're just opening your system web browser and using that.
I just tried browsing the javadocs and it indeed opens them in my system browser. Googling for embedded eclipse browser I know understand that I have never seen it in action, even at work with x86 on redhatws/fedora1-3/mandrake10 with prebuilt packages. Anyway the xpcom glue code looked totally broken as it passed _all_ pointers using ints, which should crash the system when used on 64bit arch. ...time goes on... There are no complaints or exceptions in the logs, and the help configuration does not allow to show any option for embedded broser. ... more investiagtion... If I run this before launching eclipse: (it seems that at least the /components subdirectory is not in the normal library path and eclipse find first the firefox) export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla/:/usr/lib/mozilla/components Then I get a nice exception: !ENTRY org.eclipse.core.runtime 4 2 maalis 31, 2005 08:31:09.273 !MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.core.runtime". !STACK 0 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/swt/internal/mozilla/GRE at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser.<init>(Browser.java:121) at org.eclipse.help.ui.internal.browser.embedded.EmbeddedBrowserFactory.test(EmbeddedBrowserFactory.java:65) at org.eclipse.help.ui.internal.browser.embedded.EmbeddedBrowserFactory.isAvailable(EmbeddedBrowserFactory.java:46) at org.eclipse.help.internal.browser.BrowserManager.createBrowserDescriptors(BrowserManager.java:176) at org.eclipse.help.internal.browser.BrowserManager.init(BrowserManager.java:53) at org.eclipse.help.internal.browser.BrowserManager.isEmbeddedBrowserPresent(BrowserManager.java:335) That one still doesn't look like missing reference to Equals to me, but who knows: java seems to have quite poor error reporting when linking with native code. I do not think I can try to test this further. The ebuild works for me as well as it has ever worked. Someone who has seen the embedded browser work should test if it really needs that Equals, and if it does then someone should implement it.
The ebuild + patch went fine on my machine (P4, i686) ...hth... -Stefan
I added LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the eclipse-3 wrapper script that includes firefox the mozilla's components/ directory. That makes the embedded browser work. Tried against mozilla 1.7.5 and firefox 1.0.2.
Available for testing on x86, ppc and amd64.
