eclipse on fedora 1/2

eclipse on fedora 1/2

[Nathan Bryant]

i've been playing with building eclipse in a hybrid environment, fedora 
1 with a few rpm's from fedora 2, notably:

newer binutils
newer libgcc
gcc34-*
ant and various rhug bits.

et cetera. this does mean that i'm building against an older gtk2 that 
doesn't require patches, it seems.

The sources I'm working on are eclipse-2.1.2-6 with a few patches that 
have already been discussed here. Where I'm falling afoul is crashes on 
startup in the bytecode verifier... anyone seen this?

java.lang.LinkageError: unexpected exception during linking: 
org.eclipse.update.internal.core.Policy
   at java.lang.VMClassLoader.resolveClass(java.lang.Class) 
(/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
   at java.lang.Class.initializeClass() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
   at _Jv_ResolvePoolEntry(java.lang.Class, int) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
   at org.eclipse.update.internal.core.UpdateCore.startup() (Unknown Source)
   at org.eclipse.core.internal.plugins.PluginDescriptor$1.run() 
(/usr/lib/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime_2.1.1/libruntime.so)

[snip]

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
   at _Jv_BytecodeVerifier.verify_instructions_0() 
(/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
   at _Jv_VerifyMethod(_Jv_InterpMethod) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
   at _Jv_PrepareClass(java.lang.Class) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
   at _Jv_WaitForState(java.lang.Class, int) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
   at java.lang.VMClassLoader.linkClass0(java.lang.Class) 
(/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
   at java.lang.VMClassLoader.resolveClass(java.lang.Class) 
(/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
   ...29 more