Jukka Salmi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Bogdan M. --> netbsd-help (2006-03-16 20:59:09 +0200):
>   
>> I have installed Eclipse in NetBSD-3.0, on an i386 architecture. There 
>> were no problems during installation, all went smooth. I also have the 
>> sun-jdk14, sun-jdk15, sun-jre14 and sun-jre15 packages installed.
>> When launching eclipse, I get the "standard" error message:
>>
>> $ eclipse
>> Error occurred during initialization of VM
>> java/lang/NoClassDefFoundError: java/lang/Object
>>
>> My /home/.profile file looks like
>>
>> PATH=$HOME/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/pkg/bin
>> PATH=${PATH}:/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
>> PATH=${PATH}:/usr/pkg/java/sun-1.4/bin
>> export PATH
>>
>> EDITOR=vi
>> export EDITOR
>> EXINIT='set autoindent'
>> export EXINIT
>> PAGER=more
>> export PAGER
>>
>> JAVA_HOME=/usr/pkg/java/sun-1.4/
>> export JAVA_HOME
>> CLASSPATH=${JAVA_HOME}/lib/:./
>> export CLASSPATH
>> ulimit -S -d 262144
>>
>> I have tried and looked over Google, but I haven't been able to figure 
>> out what to do. I assume my classpath is not correctly defined. I tried 
>> to inspire myself from FreeBSD-6.0, where Eclipse runs without any 
>> errors, but no solution emerged.
>>     
>
> I'm not sure if I can help you, but I'm successfully running eclipse
> 3.1.1 on a -current (3.99.17) NetBSD/i386 system. Installation steps
> I took:
>
> - install sun-jdk15 from pkgsrc
> - install apache-ant from pkgsrc (not sure if this is needed...)
> - download and extract eclipse-SDK-3.1.1-linux-motif.tar.gz
> - add `/usr/pkg/java/sun-1.5/bin' to $PATH
>
> I use the following wrapper to launch eclipse:
>
> $ cat ~/bin/eclipse
> #!/bin/sh
> ulimit -d 656020
> cd /opt/eclipse && ./eclipse
>
> BTW, does running simple java programs work on your system? E.g.:
>
> $ cat <<EOF >Hello.java
>   
>> public class Hello {
>>         public static void main(String[] args) {
>>                 System.out.println("Hello, world!");
>>         }
>> }
>> EOF
>>     
> $ javac Hello.java
> $ java Hello
> Hello, world!
>
>
> Cheers, Jukka
>
> P.S.: there's a netbsd-java mailing list; maybe you have more luck
> asking there.
>
>   
I forgot to mention I appended the line

PATH=$PATH:/usr/pkg/java/sun-1.5/bin

to /etc/profile


Best regards,
Bogdan