Getting ready for eclipse 3.3 on Gentoo, I first need to get my system configured to use a more recent version of Java instead of the default 1.4.
Here is a site dedicated to gentoo java: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/
the first thing to do is emerge java
get rid of old versions
# emerge -C java-config
add the newest
# emerge -uND java-config
to see what versions are installed, do:
# java-config --list-available-vms
The following VMs are available for generation-2:
1) Blackdown JDK 1.4.2.03 [blackdown-jdk-1.4.2]
2) Blackdown JRE 1.4.2.03 [blackdown-jre-1.4.2]
3) Blackdown 32bit JRE 1.4.2.03 [emul-linux-x86-java-1.4.2]
4) Sun 32bit JRE 1.5.0.08 [emul-linux-x86-java-1.5]
5) Kaffe 1.1.7 [kaffe]
*) Sun JDK 1.5.0.08 [sun-jdk-1.5]
to change the jvm, do:
(By handle (preferred))
# java-config --set-system-vm blackdown-jdk-1.4
Now using blackdown-jdk-1.4 as your generation-2 system JVM
(By number)
# java-config --set-system-vm 6
Now using sun-jdk-1.5 as your generation-2 system JVM
