Bug 318915 – dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.5.1-r1 doesn't work with groovy plugin

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description Sebastian Rose 2010-05-07 21:02:58 UTC]

When I use eclipse-sdk-3.5.1-r1 from the portage tree and add the Groovy-Eclipse plugin from http://groovy.codehaus.org/Eclipse+Plugin the installation goes fine, but it doesn't seem to have any effect. After restarting Eclipse there isn't a Groovy entry under File - New - Other. If I download and install Eclipse 3.5.1 (3.5.2 works too) from http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/ the Groovy plugin works fine after installation.

Interestingly enough, if I start my Eclipse installation from portage from the folder where I extracted the .tar.gz from eclipse.org download location mentioned above (~/eclipse-3.5.1 in this case), the Groovy plugin is usable:

~/eclipse-3.5.1 $ ./eclipse
(install Groovy-Eclipse plugin)
$ which eclipse-3.5
/usr/bin/eclipse-3.5
~/eclipse-3.5.1 $ eclipse-3.5

results in a Eclipse running with a working Groovy plugin.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Groovy-Eclipse. See http://groovy.codehaus.org/Eclipse+Plugin
2. Restart Eclipse
3. 

Actual Results:  
Functionality from Groovy-Eclipse is not accessible.

Expected Results:  
A new entry (named Groovy) under File - New - Other and a working Groovy-Eclipse plugin.

$ emerge --info

Portage 2.2_rc67 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.1-r0, 2.6.33-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.33-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E8400_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 07 May 2010 19:00:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p5
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r2, 3.1.2-r3
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.6.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.3-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.33
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -msse4.1"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -msse4.1"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="-va"
FEATURES="assume-digests ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/ http://gentoo.mneisen.org/ http://gentoo.virginmedia.com/"
LANG="en_GB.UTF8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en en_GB en_US de"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/pro-audio /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apm atm bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cairo caps cdda cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups cxx dbus doc dri dts dv dvd dvdr encode exif ffmpeg fftw flac fortran ftp gcj gdbm gif gimp glut gnutls gphoto2 gpm hal hddtemp iconv icq ieee1394 imagemagick imap ipv6 jack java java5 java6 javascript jpeg kde ladspa lame lash latex libedit libnotify libsamplerate lm_sensors lua lzo mad matroska mime mmx modules mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib musepack ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg openal openexr opengl openmp oscar pam pcre pdf perl php png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby samba scanner sdl semantic-desktop session smp sndfile source spl sse sse2 ssl subversion svg sysfs syslog taglib tcpd theora threads tiff timidity truetype unicode usb vcd vim-syntax vorbis wavpack wxwindows x264 xcomposite xine xml xorg xprint xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB en_US de" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon radeonhd" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Sebastian Rose 2010-05-07 21:05:47 UTC]

Forgot one thing: I tried rm -R ~/.eclipse, unmerging eclipse-sdk, and emerging it again. Didn't help.

[Comment 2 Alistair Bush (RETIRED) 2010-05-09 08:15:43 UTC]

If you go Help > About Eclipse > Installation Details is there anything in there about the groovy plugin.

It will probably say that we are missing something.

[Comment 3 Sebastian Rose 2010-05-09 11:18:44 UTC]

Created attachment 230855 [details]
Screenshot of Help > About Eclipse > Installation Details

This is what I see after installing Groovy-Eclipse. I'm not able to use any other plugins (Scala and AspectJ in this case) if Groovy-Eclipse is installed (create new projects, etc). If I uninstall Groovy-Eclipse they are useable again.

[Comment 4 Alistair Bush (RETIRED) 2010-05-10 08:55:18 UTC]

mmmm...  not only does the groovy plugin not work,  but installing it makes other plugins (C/C++ and pydev) not work either.

[Comment 5 Sebastian Rose 2010-05-14 08:36:32 UTC]

Yeah, that's happening here too. I'm a bit lost where to search for the error, any ideas? It seems that Groovy-Eclipse needs to write into the eclipse directory, /usr/lib/eclipse/ in case of installation through portage. Since it can't do that things go wrong. Not sure what and why though.

[Comment 6 Matthias Herrmann 2011-04-27 10:32:14 UTC]

Same behaviour here. Aren't there any solutions/workarounds for this?

[Comment 7 James Le Cuirot 2016-02-17 13:29:59 UTC]

Closing as this version is ancient and the package has been removed from the tree. If the package ever returns and this issue persists, please reopen.