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Developer's guide to upgrading the AJDT build to a newer version of Eclipse

Revision as of 09:09, 18 December 2006 by Mpchapman.gmail.com (Talk | contribs)

Steps required to change the version of Eclipse used to build and AJDT and run the tests. As an example we will consider an upgrade from Eclipse 3.3M3 to 3.3M4:

Download new Eclipse-SDK (such eclipse-SDK-3.3M4-linux-gtk.tar.gz) and also eclipse-test-framework-3.3M4.zip (listed under JUnit Plugin Tests and Automated Testing Framework)

From the CruiseControl build directory on the build machine, rename old dir "eclipse33" to "eclipse33-old-M3". Create new dir "eclipse33" and unpack new SDK into it - so that you have a path of eclipse33/eclipse/startup.jar.

Go to "test" sub-dir and rename old dir "eclipse33" to "eclipse33-old-M3". Unpack new SDK again - so that this time you have a path of eclipse33/startup.jar. Also unpack the test framework zip file at the same level. Go into eclipse33/plugins and rename org.eclipse.test_?.?.? to just "org.eclipse.test".



That should be it, but there are often some workarounds required for specific issues. Here is the current list:

 Delete test/eclipse33/plugins/org.eclipse.jdt.compiler.tool.*.jar as this new plugin requires Java 6, so will cause a warning which will result in a test failure (the tests are run under Java 5)
 Edit test/eclipse33/plugins/org.eclipse.test/library.xml and add "-XX:MaxPermSize=128m" to the value of the "extraVMargs" property (see bug 130545)

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