[linux-distros-dev] Problem building eclipse with JDK1.4 support

[David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi.  I'm an Arch Linux user and Java developer, and I assist one of the 
Arch package maintainers with the building and maintenance of the 
Eclipse package.

I've recently run into a problem when we tried to upgrade our Eclipse 
package from 3.2 to 3.3.1.  It seems the "java5home" argument has been 
removed from the build scripts, and as a result I'm no longer able to 
build Eclipse with proper JDK1.4 support.  See these bugs for more 
details on the issue:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=206479
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=153087

Neither the Eclipse JUnit team (the problem exhibits itself as a JUnit 
bug) nor the Eclipse build team has been able to answer our questions 
and show us how we can get our package properly built to support JDK1.4.

Can anyone here offer some assistance?

TIA,

DR