FC5 - Eclipse with Sun Java

Andrew Overholt overholt at redhat.com
Fri Sep 8 14:47:31 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-09 at 10:28 -0700, Mark Eggers wrote:
> Redhat sometimes makes changes to the packages in order to get them to 
> run will in their environment.

There isn't much that we do that isn't eventually pushed upstream, FWIW.

> I don't know if the downloaded Eclipse will run against the GNU Java.

It will, but you won't get the benefit of the aot-compiled bits[1].

Andrew

[1]
well, you will for classes whose bytecode hasn't changed between the
version you have in an RPM from Fedora and the version you're trying to
run
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