[fedora-java] making eclipse multilib compatible (bug # 207016)

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Tue Oct 24 15:12:39 UTC 2006


Ben Konrath writes:
 > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 07:40 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > Ben Konrath writes:
 > >  > Hi Andrew,
 > >  > 
 > >  > Last week I started looking into making our eclipse packages mulitlib
 > >  > compatible to solve bug # 207016 and I thought I'd write up a little
 > >  > status report of what I found. 
 > >  > 
 > >  > Here are the issues we need sort out:
 > >  > 
 > >  > 1) Ensure the src zips are the same for all arches
 > >  > 2) Put the native fragments in %{_libdir} - the swt classes need to go 
 > >  >    there too because they use 32-bit or 64-bit references depending on 
 > >  >    the arch
 > > 
 > > So you're going to put swt.jar into %{_libdir} ?  Ewww.  No, I don't
 > > have any better idea.  :-)
 > 
 > Sorry, I meant %{_libdir}/eclipse/. I know it doesn't exactly fit but
 > I'm open to suggestions.

Well, it'll work.  It's kinda weird, but as far as I'm aware it's the
only target-dependent .jar file we're likely to have to deal with, so
I guess we can live with it.  There were a couple of target-dependent
.jars in libgcj but I think that's fixed now.

Andrew.




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