[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Eclipse 3.3 Solaris Motif build

[John Morgan <cortmorgan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

  Trying to do the same here. ( Motif on Solaris 9 ). Did you post the steps anywhere? If not, could you please? Would save me a lot of time!

regards,

John

> The build I have for Solaris, motif, sparc is now
> working.  I had to make 
> a few changes to the ant build files to make it all
> work for me but in the 
> end it works.  I will post what I did to make it work
> so anyone else can 
> use the same (as if anyone uses Solaris with motif
> anymore :-) ).
> 
> Thanks for you help Andrew.  It is much appreciated.
> 
> Dann
> 
> Andrew Niefer wrote:
> 
> > They binaries are compiled, but the fragment itself
> isn't built.
> 
> > Look in cvs for the fragment:
> > 
> dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/eclipse/org.eclipse.equinox.l
> auncher/fragments/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.motif.s
> olaris.sparc
> 
> > The fragment is there with the compiled shared
> library.  You just need to 
> build 
> > the fragment itself like any other bundle gets
> built.
> 
> > -Andrew
> 
> > Dann Ormond wrote:
> >> It looks like the Equinox launchers no longer have
> a build for 
> >> solaris/motif/sparc.  I will have to see if I can
> build my own.
> >> 
> >> Dann
> >> 
> >> Andrew Niefer wrote:
> >> 
> >>> I don't know why the source build gave you a gtk
> launcher.
> >>> But the companion shared library is in the 
> >>> org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.motif.solaris.sparc
> fragment, make sure 
> >>> that fragment is included.
> >>> -Andrew
> >> 
> >>> Dann Ormond wrote:
> >>>> I am trying to build Eclipse 3.3.1 for solaris 8
> using motif. I built 
> >>>> Eclipse 3.3.1 from
> eclipse-sourceBuild-srcIncluded-3.3.1.zip using 
> >>>> the command:
> >>>> build -os solaris -ws motif -arch sparc
> >>>>
> >>>> The build went fine but when I tried running
> Eclipse I got an error 
> >>>> about finding libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.  This told me
> that the launcher 
> >>>> for Eclipse is the gtk version instead of the
> motif version.  So I 
> >>>> tried to copy all the files from 
> >>>>
> features/org.eclipse.equinox.exectuable/bin/motif/sola
> ris/sparc into 
> >>>> my built Eclpise and I get the error:
> >>>> "The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to
> locate its companion 
> >>>> shared library"
> >>>>
> >>>> Copying the launcher is basically a workaround
> for the build not 
> >>>> working properly.  Does anyone have a fix to
> either one of these issues?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>> Dann
> >>>>
> >> 
> >>
> 
>