Eclipse Red Hat Edition 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.
- Installing software updates using the Eclipse Software Update sites feature is not supported.
- To debug a Java program or an Eclipse plugin, you must use a JVM. Those available in Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 3, Update 3 are listed below. Unfortunately, no supported JVMs are available on the x86_64 architecture at this time.
- java-1.4.2-ibm (for x86 and ia64)
- java-1.4.2-bea (for x86 and ia64)
- Lomboz, a J2EE (TM) development toolkit, is not supported on the x86_64 architecture. Also, Lomboz requires a JDK and requires you to start Eclipse using a JVM.
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/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-ibm/bin/java
Would launch eclipse with the JVM located in /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-ibm
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
Please report bugs in the Red Hat Bugzilla under the Red Hat Developer Suite category, version 1.0.