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Bug 322298

Summary: Option to disable building+installing SWT
Product: [Tools] Linux Tools Reporter: Matt Whitlock <eclipse>
Component: eclipse-buildAssignee: Packaging Tools Inbox <linux.packagingtools-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: niels
Version: 0.6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Matt Whitlock CLA 2010-08-10 19:05:15 EDT 
Some distributions package SWT separately from Eclipse. For these distros, it would be nice if Eclipse Build could be configured to omit SWT from the build.

The Gentoo ebuild currently does this (in a rather crude way) by removing from the build.xml all <ant> elements that contain the string "swt". While this does work, it is obviously fragile.
Comment 1 Alexander Kurtakov CLA 2012-04-19 03:48:00 EDT 
Please provide a patch or close the bug if you would not work on this. This bug stayed open long enough and noone spend time on it.
Comment 2 Krzysztof Daniel CLA 2013-02-18 06:34:30 EST 
Eclipse build system has changed and eclipse-build will serve only as a helper. There will be no logic there.