Re: [HEADS UP] Eclipse dropping 32-bit arches
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 15:29, Mat Booth <fedora(a)matbooth.co.uk> wrote:
The Eclipse Platform upstream is in the process of dropping all
support
for 32bit arches.
The current state is that upstream are no longer building for 32bit arches
upstream for 4.10 (release 2018-12) onwards. I expect them to start
actively removing 32bit specific code in future releases.
You can read more about the decision on the upstream bug [2]
In Fedora, Eclipse 4.10 which I am building for Rawhide and F29 right now,
still builds for 32bit arches, but this will not last long. I expect in a
future release (4.11 or later) Eclipse will no longer build on x86/arm and
at that time I will no longer be able to support these architectures in
Fedora -- I expect to exclude those arches from Fedora builds.
If you depend on the ECJ batch compiler, this will continue to be
available on all arches as a noarch package. (It is packaged as a discrete
SRPM and has no build or runtime dependency on the Eclipse Platform itself.
)
Regards,
Mat
[1]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.o...
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=526620
It's three months later and I wanted to follow up on this.
Eclipse in Fedora has dropped support for 32 bit architectures. The newest
builds of Eclipse 4.11 for F30 and newer reflect this and are built for 64
bit architectures only.
By now I have touched most Eclipse plug-in packages to limit their
availability to the same architectures as Eclipse itself. If you own a
package that is not an Eclipse plug-in but it does have a build or runtime
dependency on Eclipse, then you will need to follow suit and make your
package also exclude 32 bit architecture. If your package simply depends on
Eclipse/Equinox for OSGi APIs, then you might be better switching your
package to build against the OSGi APIs provided by the
osgi-core/osgi-compendium packages instead to stay available on all
architecture. Feel free to ping if you are unsure how to proceed.
Regards,
Mat
PS. My next job is modularising Eclipse in Fedora so that it remains
available in the distro after the great package retiring happens.
--
Mat Booth
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora
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