Bug 109662

Summary:	Passing -dev argument crashes eclipse
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Developer Suite	Reporter:	Jeremy Handcock <handcock>
Component:	Platform	Assignee:	eclipse-bugs
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	eclipse-bugs
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Priority:	medium
Version:	1.0	CC:	ben
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Description Jeremy Handcock 2003-11-10 19:53:38 UTC

Description of problem:
The automated tests pass `-dev bin' to eclipse on startup, which
crashes eclipse when run natively.

See
http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/eclipse-list/2003-October/msg00168.html
for a detailed description of the problem and some hack-around
patches.  See the previous message in the same thread for instructions
on how to run the automated tests.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
eclipse-2.1.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Follow the instructions in the message referred to above.
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Actual Results:  Eclipse crashes.

Expected Results:  From the eclipse docs:

-dev [classpath entries]        Puts the platform in development mode.
 The optional classpath entries (a comma-separated list) are added to
each plug-in's classpath.  For example, when developing plug-ins, use
"-dev bin" to add the Java tooling's bin directory for each plug-in.
Redundant or non-existant classpath entries are eliminated.

The automated tests should run when this argument is used to start up
the eclipse.org automated test suite.

Comment 1 Ben Konrath 2004-11-29 17:43:19 UTC

RHDS 2.0 (Eclipse 3.0) is no longer compiled natively, closing bug.