[news.eclipse.pde] Re: unable to run patched version of org.eclipse.pde.

[Francis Upton <francisu@xxxxxxxx>]

Fixed the problem by exporting the pde.build plugin with the same 
qualifier that's used in the existing plugin and copying the plugin 
directory to the installation.

Francis Upton wrote:
> My batch build started failing when I upgraded to 3.4, so I filed this 
> bug and made a patch to fix it:
>
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=224098
>
> Prior to M6 I was able to run the PDE build by simply replacing the 
> plugin with my patched version.
>
> However with M6 (since it's using p2) I tried to put my patched plugin 
> into dropins and it would use the released plugin instead (as if my 
> patched plugin was not there).  So I copied my patched plugin into the 
> same directory (as if it were the released plugin).  The build script 
> runs, but the ${eclipse.pdebuild.scripts} variable is not set (I 
> verified that it is set correctly when using the non-patched version) -- 
> so something is going wrong here.
>
> Maybe this is more of a p2 issue, but I thought I would check here first.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Francis