Bug 234401

Summary:	Cannot change location of binary / temporary / class files
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Christopher Friedt <cfriedt>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	JDT-Core-Inbox <jdt-core-inbox>
Status:	VERIFIED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	jerome_lanneluc
Version:	3.3.1
Target Milestone:	3.5 M2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Christopher Friedt

2008-05-28 11:48:24 EDT

Build ID: M20071023-1652

Steps To Reproduce:
1.Write a simple Hello World app in source
2.Run / Debug
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More information:
I'm filing this bug specifically because of one reason - I use an EEE PC as my workstation and I would like to preserve the flash memory for as long as possible. Eclipse does a lot of writing to flash for temporary files. It would be very nice to be able to change the build / debug directory to '/tmp', which I've mounted as a tmpfs filesystem (i.e. in RAM). Not only would such a feature preserve the flash memory on my PC, but it would also dramatically increase the  speed of eclipse.

If there are any other temporary files that eclipse uses, or perhaps that the JVM can be configured to use. An option somewhere in Window -> Preferences would be very, very useful. 


I guess that this feature would only really be useful for Linux, and maybe other POSIX systems that support filesystems in RAM. I'm not sure if any version of Windows supports such a filesystem, but Mac OS X would (based on BSD)

This is not so much a bug as a feature suggestion. Thanks for reading :)

Comment 1 Jerome Lanneluc

2008-05-29 10:09:25 EDT

You can already create a link to a folder external to the workspace. When adding the output folder to your build path, select New Folder then Advanced.
Would that work for you?

Comment 2 Jerome Lanneluc

2008-08-25 09:38:52 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
Please reopen if that doesn't work for you

Comment 3 Frederic Fusier

2008-09-15 09:39:11 EDT

Verified for 3.5M2 using I20080914-2000.