Re: [linuxtools-dev] System-installed dependencies

[Matt Whitlock <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI: I've stumbled across a working solution for unbundling dependencies that does not require the use of the (sparsely supported) "external" Bundle-ClassPath references and does not require system-installed JARs to contain OSGi metadata:

1. Run Eclipse-Build as usual.
2. For each dependency JAR in installation/plugins:
	a. Create a new directory in installation/plugins named using the basename of the plugin JAR.
	b. Extract plugin.properties and META-INF/MANIFEST.MF from the plugin JAR into the new directory.
	c. Create symlink(s) to the system-installed JAR(s) in the new directory.
	d. Remove all "Name" and "SHA1-Digest" entries from META-INF/MANIFEST.MF.
	e. Add a "Bundle-ClassPath" entry to META-INF/MANIFEST.MF listing the names of the symlink(s) created in step c.
	f. Add the following XML element as a child of the <artifact> element for the appropriate plugin in artifacts.xml:
		<repositoryProperties size='1'>
			<property name='artifact.folder' value='true'/>
		</repositoryProperties>
	g. Edit configuration/org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/bundles.info to change the ".jar" suffix of the appropriate plugin to "/".
	h. Delete the dependency JAR from installation/plugins.

Now all the Gentoo users can be happy again!  Thanks for all the work Andrew and the others have done to make this possible.