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Re: [platform-swt-dev] Eclipse doesn't "just go" on Linux
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What needs to happen to fix the problem? That is, how does the Linux
packaging get changed to include the necessary shell script?
- Jared
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 03:00 pm, you wrote:
> Here's a useful link...
> http://mmoebius.gmxhome.de/eclipse/downloads/mini-HOWTO.html
>
> McQ.
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> Jared Burns <jared-eclipse@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent by: platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 04/16/2002 03:17 PM
> Please respond to platform-swt-dev
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> To: platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> cc:
> Subject: [platform-swt-dev] Eclipse doesn't "just go" on
> Linux
>
> Hola.
>
> Eclipse doesn't work out of the box on Linux.
>
> Steps to success:
> 1. Unzip Eclipse
> 2. Type /path/to/eclipse to launch
> 3. Receive the error:
> "./path/to/eclipse: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.2:
> cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory"
>
> The Eclipse launcher should append the Eclipse install directory to the
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH. The only reason this isn't necessary on Windows is that
> Windows happens to do this for you.
>
> There are two obvious ways to achieve victory here. Either add the code to
>
> programmatically append the install dir to LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the Eclipse
> executable or we could rename the executable (to, say, "runEclipse") and
> create an executable shell script which would basically read:
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`dirname $0`:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> exec runEclipse
>
> This last version is how the Sun and IBM VMs get around the
> LB_LIBRARY_PATH
> issue. Take a look at the file named "java" in the JDK/bin directory on a
> Linux box for an example.
>
> - Jared
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