[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: debugging rt.jar

["Philippe Ombredanne" <pombredanne@xxxxxxxx>]

I am not sure what is the problem there.
Debugging/stepping through rt works fine out of the box, ass leasst when you
use a JDK.
No need for re-compile, and all that pain.
Just works out of the box.
What is your version/config?

"Martin Holmes" <martincanbe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:d7f6ku$dsn$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi all,
>         I would like to step through and debug rt.jar
>
> So far  I have created an eclipse project and unzipped src.zip and allowed
> eclipse to compile it, after which I jarred it back up into myrt.jar. I
then
> specifed this on the buid path for the project I wished to debug.
>
> My problem is that Eclipse still complains with "absent line number
> information" even thou' I ticked the checkbox to include them from within
> Eclpise when I compiled the classes.
>
> Can anyone help or has anyone been able to debug rt.jar?
>
> Thanks
>
>