[NTLUG:Discuss] eclipse on Slackware 10.2

[Tom Tumelty]

I am trying to install eclipse 3.2.1 from source on Slackware 10.2.
Available Binaries are for Redhat and Suse.  I followed the instructions in
instructions.html (there are only 6 steps to create the zip file to install
from ) and i keep getting errors when building the tar.gz file to install
from.  Has anybody installed eclipse  from source ?

It seems that some step must be left out of the instructions to build the
installation file or something i do not know about is required. I can run it
again and post at least some of the log but it may take more space than one
wants posted here. One note, I did use  "unzip" to decompress it since I
didn't get tar to work, could this be a problem ? Unzip seemed to run with
no problems.

The steps I follow are :

Install Ant and a JDK as per each program's instructions. Minimally you will
need the following environment variables set.

   1. Add the Ant bin directory to your path.
   2. Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the root of your *1.4 JDK
   * installation.
   3. Set the ANT_HOME environment variable to the root of your Ant
   installation.

Run the Build

   1. Extract the eclipse-sourceBuild-srcIncluded-*.zip to an empty
   directory. Extract using tar if using a *nix drop.
   2. cd to the directory.
   3. Execute *build -os <osType> -ws <windowSystemType> -arch
   <architecture> -java5home <java 5 installation> [-bc <bootclasspath>]
   [-compilelibs] [-target <target>]*

When the Eclipse build is complete, there will be a zip file called

<osType>-<windowSystemType>-<architecture>-sdk.tar.gz

in the results subdirectory of your build directory.

Extract this file to the directory where you would like to run Eclipse. If
you extract it to your root directory, a directory called eclipse will be
created.


Thank You in advance for help.

Tom