Hello,

Bogdan Mihalcea --> netbsd-help (2006-03-17 17:03:19 +0200):
> It seems that Eclipse needs  sun-jdk15 instead of sun-jdk14.  I thought 
> of sun-jdk14, because under FreeBSD Eclipse needs java-1.4, and will not 
> work with java-1.5.

I haven't tried 1.4 - if that doesn't work you should probably send a
PR.


> I have modified my ~/.profile  file, and it now points to
> 
> ...
> PATH=${PATH}:/usr/pkg/java/sun-1.5/bin:/usr/pkg/java/sun-1.4/bin
> export PATH
> ...

I can't imagine how having different java, javac, etc. version in your
PATH could be useful...


> JAVA_HOME=/usr/pkg/java/sun-1.5/
> export JAVA_HOME
> CLASSPATH=${JAVA_HOME}/lib/:./
> export CLASSPATH

IIUC you don't need to set these variables to run eclipse.


> After this, Eclipse started with no problems. Before that, not even 
> plain java worked.

Sounds as if you should definitely send a PR...


> Thank you very much for the feed-back. I'm trying to focus (shift) from 
> FreeBSD to NetBSD.  I work  as a research scientist in physics and I 
> need part of the mathematics and CAD ports which exist in FreeBSD. I 
> managed to install Mathematica which was a piece of cake, didn't succeed 
> with Maple.
> Did you install the java-tutorial port from FreeBSD under NetBSD?

No.


> I'll try to.

Good luck!


Regards, Jukka

-- 
bashian roulette:
$ ((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~