I cannot figure out how to do subj. After having wasted 3 days
trying and scanning the docs, it's probably excusable now to ask
you for some pointers.
The situation:
I'm porting some old plugin to run in Neon and have run into a
showstopping bug in osgi.storage
(http://stackoverflow.com/q/42870213/648265 ; btw you might be able
to answer the main question there which is not about the bug).
So, now I need to:
1) Build Eclipse from the latest sources from Git (done)
2) Run the resulting binaries, load my PDE projects into it and
reproduce the problem under debugger.
3) Fix the source, rebuild, make sure the problem goes away and
there are no other blockers.
4) Build an installer from the resulting sources and replace my
existing installation with it.
Only then can I continue my work.
5) A side issue: since m2eclipse doesn't support all the Maven
plugins used in the build, it's unclear how to work with the sources
from Eclipse.
Tried:
* https://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform-releng/Platform_Build --
explains how to build the sources from console but says nothing
about 2), 4) and 5).
* Guessing the command line to run from source -- as per the SO
question, running the .jar's directly requires many unknown
arguments, so I'll definitely be running into sorts of issues if
guessing around. The command line from the question cannot be used
(even without -agentlib). The resulting directory tree is completely
different from a normal installation so, predictably, just finding
an eclipse.exe and running it doesn't work.
* https://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/How_to_Contribute -- explains
how to install some unspecified build (probably nightly) of specific
components but says nothing about the sources corresponding to what
I'm suppposed to be running. The "UI" component mentioned in the "Setting up your
SDK" section is not present in the corresponding dialog now
and the PDE component is present but cannot be selected.
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Regards,
Ivan
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