[CentOS] Jpackage tomcat55-common-lib requires eclipse-ecj >= 0:3.1.1

Wed Sep 27 13:30:37 UTC 2006
Will McDonald <wmcdonald at gmail.com>

On 27/09/06, Matt Hyclak <hyclak at math.ohiou.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:09:49PM +0100, Will McDonald enlightened us:
> > Guys,
> >
> > I'm running into a dependecy issue running through the process of
> > building a system for Openbravo. My test system's running CentOS 4.4,
> > i386.
> >
> > Openbravo requires...
> >
> > - Jakarta-Tomcat version 5.5. It can be downloaded from
> > http://tomcat.apache.org/
> > - Java (TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0. It can be downloaded from
> > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
> > - Oracle(r) 10g database release 2. It can be downloaded from
> > http://www.oracle.com
> > - Apache-ant 1.6. It can be downloaded from http://ant.apache.org/
> >
> > So far (see attached text file for rough documentation of build
> > sequence) I've built Java and JTA successfully. When I try to install
> > tomcat55 it results in...
> >
> > "Error: Missing Dependency: eclipse-ecj >= 0:3.1.1 is needed by
> > package tomcat55-common-lib"
> >
> > Jpackage 1.6 only has eclipse-3.0.2 as far as I can see. So, my
> > question, is there a preferred or authoratative source for
> > packaging/or a prepackaged Eclipse that'll fulfil my requirements?
> >
> > I've searched around and found mention of Jason Corley 's SRPMs
> > http://www.zarb.org/~jasonc/repo/ from
> > https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/jpackage-discuss/2006-June/010098.html,
> > I'll have a play with those now.
> >
> > Do I need to switch to 1.7 to fulfil these requirements? Any
> > suggestions or best-practices greatfully received.
> >
>
> You might also look at the thread here:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.jpackage.general/10003/match=tomcat55+eclipse+ecj
>
> It looks like you can bootstrap the process by installing a pre-built
> eclipse-ecj, even if it's not for your specific distro, since it is pure
> java files.

You star! That's great, just what I was after. I guess I should've
trawled the Jpackage list a bit more.

Cheers.

Will.