Red Hat Release Notes

There are a few known issues you may run into while trying this release of Eclipse.

• In order to use OProfile, you must be using the SMP kernel. The single-processor kernels don't include the necessary OProfile support.
• Software Updates will not work as they attempt to write to /usr/lib/eclipse as a normal user (without correct permissions).
• To debug an Eclipse plugin you must use a JVM. Those available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, taroon-rc1 are listed below:
• Sun's SDK 1.4.2
• IBM's SDK 1.4.1
• BEA's SDK 1.4.1 (JRockit 8.1.1.1)
• If you use a the BEA WebLogic JRockit 8.1 SP1 RP1 JVM, you will need to set the environment variable: LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1. This release of the JRockit JVM does not support the default NPTL threading library and the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL setting directs the runtime linker to use the older LinuxThreads threading library instead.

The Red Hat Edition of Eclipse has been compiled with gcj, and launches with gcjLauncher. You can override this setting with the -vm option, to specify a JVM. For example:

• eclipse -vm /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_02/bin/java

Would launch eclipse with the jvm located in /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1_02/

There are a number of locale issues we are aware of:

• Eclipse cannot parse non-English messages from external tools (GCC, make, gas, ld,etc)
• Eclipse doesn't display non-ASCII characters correctly (ie language accents)
• Signal list in Eclipse is incorrect when using Japanese locale

For more information on bug reporting, please see