REVERT TO CONSOLE

I normally use emacs and command line svn when working at home on Linux. Eclipse to me, in principle, is a necessary evil of programming with larger groups. But a recent volunteer project I’ve been working on for the Philippine Scholars of Minnesota is forcing me out of this habit.

And with this change, I’ve suddenly been introduced to the world of JavaHL. So what is JavaHL? Per the previous link, it’s the Java language binding for the Subversion API. On Windows the subclipse project is able to package JavaHL, but not on other operating systems. So that’s why I’ve never had to deal with it before.

Fortunately, after finding out what JavaHL actually is, it’s pretty easy to install on Ubuntu, as you might expect:

sudo apt-get install libsvn-java

This will install JavaHL to /usr/lib/jni as a standard install, and this is where eclipse will look for it by default. If you’ve installed it in a non-standard way, you might want to look at this link regarding overwriting the java.library.path with an eclipserc file.