[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: problem unpacking build of 3.1M5a on a linux

[joseph_sacco@xxxxxxxxxxx (Joseph Sacco)]

The archive built on a linux system in *not* a zip file, even though it 
has a ".zip" suffix. It is a compressed tar file.

My Apologies for wasting bandwidth...

-Joseph
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Joseph Sacco wrote:

> I am attempting to build eclipse-3.1M5a on a 32-bit PPC running Yellow Dog 
> Linux 4.0.1, a FC2 clone for PPC.  I am using IBM's IBMJava2-ppc-142 and 
> ant-1.6.2

> The build required editing a couple of files to fix some path and library 
> naming issues:

>      ./plugins/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/gtk/library/build.sh-
>      ./plugins/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/gtk/library/make_linux.mak-

> Beyond that the build completed generating a huge zip file:

> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 91563113 Feb 28 10:38 
> result/org.eclipse.sdk-I20050219-1500-linux.gtk.ppc.zip

> There is a problem with the zip file:

> % unzip -l org.eclipse.sdk-I20050219-1500-linux.gtk.ppc.zip
> Archive:  org.eclipse.sdk-I20050219-1500-linux.gtk.ppc.zip
>   End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
>   a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
>   latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
>   the last disk(s) of this archive.
> unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of 
> org.eclipse.sdk-I20050219-1500-linux.gtk.ppc.zip or
>         org.eclipse.sdk-I20050219-1500-linux.gtk.ppc.zip.zip, and cannot 
> find org.eclipse.sdk-I20050219-1500-linux.gtk.ppc.zip.ZIP, period.

> Thoughts???


> -Joseph